Weird External HDD Behavior..

[Awakening]

I store a lot of media on a 1.5 TB WD External HDD and for the past month or so I've noticed that sometimes videos will somehow develop some kind of fragmenting as if it were compressed or something. It's like some of the videos somehow recoded themselves and most of the time when motion happens frames get all jumbled together and overlap themselves,mix together, and fragment--mostly ONLY in spots where things are changing in the video and then it evens out eventually and keeps happening to other frames. I know for a fact that this isn't a problem with VLC because I tried playing it in two other players and the exact same playback issues occur at the exact same times as if the video literally recoded itself for degraded quality even though the file sizes are the same (as far as I can tell).

 

This doesn't happen on my OS drive at all. It only seems to happen a little while after my media being on the external HDD and then played. This is one of the strangest things I've ever experienced. Why is this happening? Is there something I can do to fix it without having to redownload all the videos it's affected?

 

I'm on Windows 10 and the external drive is a 1.5 TB WD Elements.

[HPWebcamAble]

If you move the file from your HDD to your OS drive after it exhibits this, does the issue go away?

[DXMember]

read up on the motion jpeg key frames

either the drive is dying or the videos you are trying to playback are too high of a bandwidth for your connection

[Awakening]

13 minutes ago, HPWebcamAble said:

If you move the file from your HDD to your OS drive after it exhibits this, does the issue go away?

 

13 minutes ago, DXMember said:

read up on the motion jpeg key frames

either the drive is dying or the videos you are trying to playback are too high of a bandwidth for your connection

Plays the same when transferring to the OS drive.

[DXMember]

3 minutes ago, Awakening said:

 

Plays the same when transferring to the OS drive.

do you have the same video to compare before and after the transfer?

seems unlikely that the file system would allow for incorrect writes

 

in that case I'd say either the video was corrupt beforehand or the drive ir legit dying and should be cloned/replaced ASAP

[Awakening]

10 minutes ago, DXMember said:

do you have the same video to compare before and after the transfer?

seems unlikely that the file system would allow for incorrect writes

 

in that case I'd say either the video was corrupt beforehand or the drive ir legit dying and should be cloned/replaced ASAP

They definitely weren't like that before ;-;

[Awakening]

Anyone got any other theories?

[Awakening]

On 6/14/2016 at 1:51 AM, DXMember said:

do you have the same video to compare before and after the transfer?

seems unlikely that the file system would allow for incorrect writes

 

in that case I'd say either the video was corrupt beforehand or the drive ir legit dying and should be cloned/replaced ASAP

I found out that it's happening during the file transfer instead of after it while it's passive. Could a bad cable cause this?

[DXMember]

5 hours ago, Awakening said:

I found out that it's happening during the file transfer instead of after it while it's passive. Could a bad cable cause this?

SATA CRC should catch those and be able to retry-fix or give out an error message.

but you can try replacing the cable