HDD problem or not?

Kostaspk · August 22, 2020

Hello guys i have a Seagate Backup Plus Slim 1TB external HDD, 2 months ago i opened Hard Disk Sentinel and said that the disk have 8% health and like 8 hours life but the crystal disk info and the Seagate tools software says that the disk is fine, it finished all the tests from the seagate tools software with 0 errors and it keep working fine after 2 months full speed, should i go for a new one? sorry for my bad english

Edit:

The Hard Disk Sentinel reports bad sectors but the other 2 apps reports 0 bad sectors

Jamf · August 24, 2020

Since a bad sector on a hard drive is simply a tiny cluster of storage space (a sector) of the hard drive that appears to be defective. The sector will not respond to read or write requests. Bad sectors can occur on both traditional magnetic hard drives and modern SSDs. There are two types of bad sectors, one resulting from physical damage that can’t be repaired, and one resulting from software errors that can be fixed. Logical sectors may be marked as bad sectors, but can be repaired by overwriting the drive with zeros; or like in the old days, performing a low level format . I would recommend you attempt to use Windows’ Disk Check tool to see if it can resolve "any" issues. https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/guide-to-using-check-disk-in-windows-vista/

The operating system may have tried to read data on the hard drive from this sector and found that the error-correcting code (ECC) didn’t match the contents of the sector, which suggests that something is wrong. From the sound of your situation you are probably fine but you should always have backups of your important files just in case a freak bad sector strikes.... depending on the cost of a replacement drive in your country I would recommend you get one just to be safe.

Kostaspk · August 24, 2020

Chkdsk was executed in scan mode on a volume snapshot.

Checking file system on R:
Volume label is EHDD.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
197888 file records processed. File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 2.35 seconds.
15 large file records processed. Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed. Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 1.54 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
8 reparse records processed. 225048 index entries processed. Index verification completed.
Phase duration (Index verification): 1.35 minutes.

Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 50.62 milliseconds.

Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 21.13 milliseconds.
8 reparse records processed. Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 7.08 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 33.88 milliseconds.
13580 data files processed. Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 4.10 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976759807 KB total disk space.
369369072 KB in 184051 files.
55488 KB in 13582 indexes.
293687 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
607041560 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244189951 total allocation units on disk.
151760390 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 1.39 minutes (83590 ms).

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Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...

thanks for your answer this is the report from the windows chkdsk

Jamf · August 24, 2020

1 hour ago, Kostaspk said:

thanks for your answer this is the report from the windows chkdsk

Welcome, I am glad to hear that this re-assured your mindset on the status of the drive. I would still recommend that you backup any important data in case something like this happens again in the future.