troubleshot Can SATA controler break you HDD?

[DandaCze]

Hello
i've been having problems with my HDD monts now, i've switched between multiple HDD's. There is this weird problem, it's like if there are bad sector, files corupted or missing, but theres no bad sector, i've run multiple tests, also when i runned chkdsk /x /f /r it finds and fixes files, but if i run it again it's like nothing changed.

Also i didn't have any problems with (sata) SSD's and i reinstall windows multiple times.

 

HDD: Seagate IronWolf Pro 4TB

Motherboard: ASRock Q77M vPro

 

Edited April 15, 2024 by DandaCze
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[emosun]

28 minutes ago, DandaCze said:

There is this weird problem, it's like if there are bad sector, files corupted or missing, but theres no bad sector

so whats your actual problem

[whispous]

If you feel there may be a bad sector, you should run a proper HDD test to find out.

 

Otherwise, no a controller cannot physically harm a HDD but it definitely can be faulty to the point there it corrupts data. This is rare, but possible.

[DandaCze]

3 hours ago, emosun said:

so whats your actual problem

problem is that my files corrupt and there's no problem with HDD

[DandaCze]

2 hours ago, whispous said:

If you feel there may be a bad sector, you should run a proper HDD test to find out.

 

Otherwise, no a controller cannot physically harm a HDD but it definitely can be faulty to the point there it corrupts data. This is rare, but possible.

I run chkdsk and AOMEI surface test multiple times, everything ok with HDD

[manikyath]

can - theoretically yes..

 

on that note, you appear to be facing an issue i see a lot with seagate barracuda's.. it's starting to have issues seeking. just about every test you'll do on this drive will return fine, other than it'll appear slow.. but that's a doomed drive.

[Ryker Robb]

2 hours ago, manikyath said:

can - theoretically yes..

 

on that note, you appear to be facing an issue i see a lot with seagate barracuda's.. it's starting to have issues seeking. just about every test you'll do on this drive will return fine, other than it'll appear slow.. but that's a doomed drive.

How can you know this without seeing any benchmarks? Plus, this is an ironwolf pro, not a barracuda.

[manikyath]

18 minutes ago, Ryker Robb said:

How can you know this without seeing any benchmarks? Plus, this is an ironwolf pro, not a barracuda.

because read and seek error rate.

[Ryker Robb]

1 hour ago, manikyath said:

because read and seek error rate.

They're both 0. Remember, the first 4 digits are the error count, and the final 8 digits are the total number of seek/read operations.

[DandaCze]

4 hours ago, manikyath said:

can - theoretically yes..

 

on that note, you appear to be facing an issue i see a lot with seagate barracuda's.. it's starting to have issues seeking. just about every test you'll do on this drive will return fine, other than it'll appear slow.. but that's a doomed drive.

Is there any way to find it for sure? It's still in warranty

And yes you're right, when i run long test or just copy big file, it randomly drops to like 15mb/s or worst

[Ryker Robb]

11 minutes ago, DandaCze said:

Is there any way to find it for sure? It's still in warranty

And yes you're right, when i run long test or just copy big file, it randomly drops to like 15mb/s or worst

You could try doing a benchmark on it, using hd tune or victoria. One that actually graphs the speed of the entire drive. Like this: 

or this: 

[DandaCze]

2 hours ago, Ryker Robb said:

You could try doing a benchmark on it, using hd tune or victoria. One that actually graphs the speed of the entire drive. Like this: 

or this: 

thank you so much

[kokosnh]

check the RAM for instability, or CPU, as the data is always cached in RAM, maybe it gets corrupted there. 

SMART of the HDD is OK (the BC attribute is not zero, but if it's not raising, then it's OK)