Old HDD showing 100% active time and getting disconnected :/ ? whats the fuss ?

[samiur]

my almost 5 yr old sata 2 HDD was running quite fine over the few yrs , but today when i was running my pc ( C  is on SSD btw and the old one is considered as a secondary disk ) 

so a huge collection of movies and games P** and what not are onto that disk , so at first glance i considered it as connectivity problem but sooner the drive was getting constantly disconnected , tried swapping sata cable , and saw on HDD sentinal that lots of connectivity problem along with health has been projected as 48%  my another WD 1 tb is fine along with the SSD , so does this confirm its time to backup stuffs of that oldy HDD  ? and buy a new one instead  ?

[admiraltrout]

yea your drive is about to die

 

[Captain_WD]

On 7.04.2016 г. at 10:51 AM, samiur said:

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Hello samiur,

It is a very good time to back your data up from that drive as these are strong indications that it is about to fail. After you've backed everything up I would check the drive's S.M.A.R.T. status and perform an extended test with a tool from the manufacturer (have in mind that his may further damage the drive if there's a physical problem). This should tell you exactly what's the problem with the drive.

If you have problems reading the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. status feel free to post them here

Captain_WD.