Is my drive dying?

[ValkyrieStar]

Generally I use my SSD(s) for most tasks, but due to the nature of my work i sometimes end up with a number of videos that means i have to store extra on my spare HDDs.

 

I have 3 x 2.5" 500GB HDDs, two of which run perfectly fine, and a third which started exhibiting strange behaviour recently, where under sequential writes it would sometimes write at ~100MB/s then bomb down to ~15MB/s, even when the other drives are close to full they still write at 60+MB/s.

 

A "diskpart > clean all" successfully restored the drive to its previous speeds. Though now there is a SMART error showing up.

 

Anyway, long story cut short, do i need a new HDD?

 

 

[Dujith]

Yes, anything other then "Good" means you'll need to replace it.

Might not fail soon, but it can happen and you should prevent that.

 

[Mike87]

You should watch the reallocated counter if it goes up. If yes then you should be aware of it dying soon... 

[Changis]

27 minutes ago, ValkyrieStar said:

Generally I use my SSD(s) for most tasks, but due to the nature of my work i sometimes end up with a number of videos that means i have to store extra on my spare HDDs.

 

I have 3 x 2.5" 500GB HDDs, two of which run perfectly fine, and a third which started exhibiting strange behaviour recently, where under sequential writes it would sometimes write at ~100MB/s then bomb down to ~15MB/s, even when the other drives are close to full they still write at 60+MB/s.

 

A "diskpart > clean all" successfully restored the drive to its previous speeds. Though now there is a SMART error showing up.

 

Anyway, long story cut short, do i need a new HDD?

 

 

seems like bad sectors.. replace drive.

you can also check if it makes any strange sounds.. http://datacent.com/hard_drive_sounds.php
if it does, get a backup done asap if you don't already have

[SoreRaito]

20 minutes ago, Mike87 said:

You should watch the reallocated counter if it goes up. If yes then you should be aware of it dying soon... 

Does the reallocated counter need to be low ?

 

For all my 3 drives it says 100, 100, 100.

 

nearly ervery counter is at 100 under Current or Worst. But under status its Good 100%.

Edited August 17, 2017 by SoreRaito

[ValkyrieStar]

The pending sector count went up after it threw the wobble, then seem to get transfered to the reallocated sector once i did the clean all.

 

I had a couple of drives previous that would detect properly and spin up and read all data, and a chkdisk would show up no errors, but trying to write or delete anything would result in an IO error and the pending sectors count was pretty high  (20 something) and also the reallocated sectors were up in the 30s. Id just wanted to run clean all to completely wipe the drive to bin it safely but i ended up having to take a hammer to it. Any idea what that was about?

 

It only threw a wobble after i experimented with a disk closing drive bay enclosure, before then it was fine, i can only assume that had part to do with it. Im slowly working on replacing all my drives with SSDs anyway, HDDs are slow as @&£! with the things i do, raw 4k60 footage easily topping the gigabit/s mark meaning that even a few minutes of video is pusing 20GB, and on a HDD thats a good while to copy, not even mentioning that usually i get batches of 400-800GB of files at a time. SSDs do it in a matter of minutes...

 

Ill keep an eye on the drive, seems like the clean all has fixed the main issue for now.