Toshiba P300 HDD committing suicide

Idkwhat2putheresowhatever · March 7, 2021

Hey guys my just over 2 year old Toshiba P300 decided that it wanted to give up on life today. Never got any warnings beforehand other than the fact that my PC would randomly shut off without warning.

RMAed my V850 V2 PSU and it went away for a while but it suddenly came back a few days ago. I read a forum post I found on the internet today that suggested it might be the HDD, which I thought shouldn't have been causing the issue since it wasn't a boot drive. But to make sure, I fired up CrystalDiskInfo and sure enough, there were a few relocated sectors. The raw value stated 0000000062 at the reallocated sector count, which was odd considering the drive is less than 3 years old (out of its 2 year warranty by 2 months). Then I remembered that yesterday Forza Horizon 4 installed on the drive didn't load properly and got stuck on the loading screen but I thought that it was just the issue with the game. Afterwards I fired up some other games and some didnt seem to load properly either.

Since this seemed like the drive would likely completely fail, I copied off some of the more important files to my D: drive, which was my non-boot SSD. Files copied at the full speed of 170MB/s until it reached certain files and it would subsequently drop to 0 bytes/s. In task manager the SSD I was copying to was at 0% utilisation while the Toshiba HDD was at 100%, but at 0kb/s read and 0kb/s write and 0ms response time. Occasionally it would hit around 16kb/s on both read write and the response times will jump through the roof at around 5000ms. This led me to believe that the drive has multiple bad sectors.

What I did next was to run chkdsk /r but it would get stuck at phase 4 and the eta will be around 100+ hours and the number of files scanned would not increase.

So I went ahead and ordered a new 4TB Toshiba N300 HDD (Seagate and WD options at that price were 5400rpm) and it should be arriving on the next few days.

The question now is that is there any way to clone this drive over. I have the WD edition of Acronis True Image and it seems to have the functionality of ignoring bad sectors. I have repeatedly tried to copy these files over manually but the speeds just dip to 0 bytes/s. Crystaldiskmark either benches speeds of 170MB/s read or 14MB/s read. So what should I do now? My drive is only almost half filled at 895GB/1.8TB.