HDD SMART health? Should I be worried?

[Sharif]

 

It's pretty loud with it's grk grk grk noise everytime it does something

[BondiBlue]

2TB drives are cheap, so if it's making concerning noises then I'd go ahead and just replace it. It's cheaper than recovering lost data. 

[SquintyG33Rs]

if it's making noises yeah i'd replace as soon as possible. SMART doesn't exactly cover everything and it's also not standard (different drives report different metrics) so really the noise is much more worrisome than the SMART

[Sharif]

1 minute ago, BondiBlue said:

2TB drives are cheap, so if it's making concerning noises then I'd go ahead and just replace it. It's cheaper than recovering lost data. 

Problem being, knowing me I'll likely swap it would for a ssd so I don't hear a mechanical drive or have to baby another drive again. 2tb drives ssds are a little hefty.

 

[BondiBlue]

1 minute ago, Sharif said:

Problem being, knowing me I'll likely swap it would for a ssd so I don't hear a mechanical drive or have to baby another drive again. 2tb drives ssds are a little hefty.

That's just up to you then. Personally I'd just replace it with another mechanical drive for the time being and get an SSD down the road. 

[SquintyG33Rs]

5 minutes ago, Sharif said:

Problem being, knowing me I'll likely swap it would for a ssd so I don't hear a mechanical drive or have to baby another drive again. 2tb drives ssds are a little hefty.

 

ssd fail too, and you don't get a clonk to notify you before it happens...... if anything it comes as more of a surprise when it happens.
and yeah if budget is tight i'd get another mechanical. or move stuff off to external or something for right now. because once it goes you won't be able to get anything off it

 

[Sharif]

7 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

ssd fail too, and you don't get a clonk to notify you before it happens...... if anything it comes as more of a surprise when it happens.
and yeah if budget is tight i'd get another mechanical. or move stuff off to external or something for right now. because once it goes you won't be able to get anything off it

 

What's their failure rate like compared to hdd? This is like 3rd hdd in the last 6ish years that I had to deal with (Different computers but all started off the same way) 

 

This likely is dying from all moving around it experienced throughout it's life, mainly used it as my bulk backup, which is ironic that it's the one dying

 

Edit

Any drives you'd recommend for my backup use? I have been kinda out of the loop with all the reds and blues wd for example and has seagate gotten better with their failure rate these days?

[SquintyG33Rs]

1 minute ago, Sharif said:

What's their failure rate like compared to hdd? This is like 3rd hdd in the last 6ish years that I had to deal with (Different computers but all started off the same way) 

 

This likely is dying from all moving around it experienced throughout it's life, mainly used it as my bulk backup, which is ironic that it's the one dying

well it depends. when you're talking about regular failures, aka just the random ones, the failure rates aren't incredibly different. but SSD don't fail because you're too rough when you move your PC. and that seems to be your particular issue...... so an SSD wouldn't fail on you like these hard drives. but you could have prevented these failures if you where able to take the extra care (i do recognize that sometimes you can't avoid it)

[Sharif]

3 minutes ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

well it depends. when you're talking about regular failures, aka just the random ones, the failure rates aren't incredibly different. but SSD don't fail because you're too rough when you move your PC. and that seems to be your particular issue...... so an SSD wouldn't fail on you like these hard drives. but you could have prevented these failures if you where able to take the extra care (i do recognize that sometimes you can't avoid it)

I did look after for the most part, it's mainly moving it from here to there, being close to a sub etc. Traveling too. 

 

I'll get HDD again but 7200 this time, would you recommend going wd or seagate? 

https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=2tb%2Bsshd&qid=1637289653&sr=8-5&th=1

https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Blue-Hard-Drive/dp/B08VH8R94B/ref=sr_1_25?keywords=2tb%2Bsshd&qid=1637289653&sr=8-25&th=1

[SquintyG33Rs]

Just now, Sharif said:

I did look after for the most part, it's mainly moving it from here to there, being close to a sub etc. Traveling too. 

 

I'll get HDD again but 7200 this time, would you recommend going wd or seagate? 

https://www.amazon.ca/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-Drive-3-5-Inch/dp/B07H2RR55Q/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=2tb%2Bsshd&qid=1637289653&sr=8-5&th=1

https://www.amazon.ca/Western-Digital-Blue-Hard-Drive/dp/B08VH8R94B/ref=sr_1_25?keywords=2tb%2Bsshd&qid=1637289653&sr=8-25&th=1

hard to say, both reliable brands but i know there's sometimes fishy stuff happening on specific SKU as far as i'm aware these are the usual no specific issue. i'd just get the cheaper of the two.

[Sharif]

11 hours ago, SquintyG33Rs said:

hard to say, both reliable brands but i know there's sometimes fishy stuff happening on specific SKU as far as i'm aware these are the usual no specific issue. i'd just get the cheaper of the two.

Intel was around the news few months ago, wasn't paying attention back then but I never gotten a seagate drive before, so I will give them a go.

 

For the time being I removed the drive letter from the drive so the system can't access it anymore and leaves it alone till the replacement arrives and I clone everything over. That 72000 rpm will be nice 

[SquintyG33Rs]

On 11/19/2021 at 9:06 AM, Sharif said:

Intel was around the news few months ago, wasn't paying attention back then but I never gotten a seagate drive before, so I will give them a go.

 

For the time being I removed the drive letter from the drive so the system can't access it anymore and leaves it alone till the replacement arrives and I clone everything over. That 72000 rpm will be nice 

if you only remove the drive path it still gets spun up when you turn on the system. you should really have it unplugged while you're not using it. it's not data access that ages a mechanical drive the most.

[Sharif]

On 11/22/2021 at 4:09 PM, SquintyG33Rs said:

if you only remove the drive path it still gets spun up when you turn on the system. you should really have it unplugged while you're not using it. it's not data access that ages a mechanical drive the most.

I found that out the very next day lol

 

To just wait for the new drive to come in and swap it out while I am in there, I am have been using my laptop for the time being.

 

What got it this bad is my aggressive timer I set for the drive, a very long 5 minutes, it's the loudest thing in my system and the prior days to this post I was mining raptoreum for the last few days non stop and you can guess the amount of times that drive probably turned off and on. The actual miner is on my other drive and this doesn't have any programs running off it, yet I'd hear it turn off and on from time to time

[SquintyG33Rs]

On 11/24/2021 at 9:46 AM, Sharif said:

I found that out the very next day lol

 

To just wait for the new drive to come in and swap it out while I am in there, I am have been using my laptop for the time being.

 

What got it this bad is my aggressive timer I set for the drive, a very long 5 minutes, it's the loudest thing in my system and the prior days to this post I was mining raptoreum for the last few days non stop and you can guess the amount of times that drive probably turned off and on. The actual miner is on my other drive and this doesn't have any programs running off it, yet I'd hear it turn off and on from time to time

ouch...