Should I replace my hard drive?

[john01dav]

Hello! I recently switched motherboards from the Asus M5A78L-M LX PLUS to the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD2 (mainly for the additional PCI slots). I have two hard drives, a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB SSD and a Western Digital Green 2TB Hard Drive. When I booted, first the computer tried to boot from a left over bootloader on the hard drive, some quick bios changes fixed that. Then, I found that the WD Green hard drive was not correctly setup so the OS on the SSD failed to mount it. After some digging, it appeared that it was plugged into the wrong SATA slot on the motherboard, after I corrected this, the entire hard drive was wiped and the data on the SSD was corrupted. The SSD is less than a month old and the hard drive is less than a year old with neither one having heavy use. I reformatted both drives and everything is working now. I also purchased all of the parts for a custom built NAS for backups. My question is, should I replace my WD Green hard drive?

[swifty7]

if it's working fine then no.....why should you?

[john01dav]

if it's working fine then no.....why should you?

I'm worried that it is a sign that it will soon fail again, I'd rather not lose all of my (usually > ~1-1.5tb) data again. It will be awhile before I get my NAS setup for backups.

[skullbringer]

if it works, no.

 

[TheGeekster]

Try using "hard disk sentinel" the free version is enough to get a rough idea if the hard drive has any issues, works for me.

 

Don't get how it can be plugged into the wrong sata port though, if your OS was installed on your SSD along with the proper boot loader, then the system should just either mount it as a different drive letter? Unless something more complex was set up?

[john01dav]

Try using "hard disk sentinel" the free version is enough to get a rough idea if the hard drive has any issues, works for me.

 

Don't get how it can be plugged into the wrong sata port though, if your OS was installed on your SSD along with the proper boot loader, then the system should just either mount it as a different drive letter? Unless something more complex was set up?

I am using Linux, and I could not find a Linux version of Sentinel (it's also a commercial program which I generally try to avoid), Instead I used a Linux program called GSmartControl which reports the drive is in good condition. I have my OS setup to mount drives based on the sata port number.

[snkmoorthy]

On Linux install 'smartmon-utils'. Every distribution has some different name for the same package. Search your repo for 'smartmon';

 

run 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX'

 

check for SMART errors at the end, run SMART self tests etc...