Seagate Barracuda acting weird 2TB ST2000DM006-2DM164

[00RaZoR11]

I have this few months old HDD, 2tb, 7200rpm. Storage space is 50% utilized, defragmented with auslogics, now allegedly 0% fragmented.

I suspect it's either a windows update messing with me, or the PSU dying. The drive should be fine, since it works, no data corruption, no s.m.a.r.t. issues, good temp (30C).

It's the D drive in win10, there are applications installed on it. Since yesterday sometimes windows failes to recognize it properly at startup. It won't show up in the explorer, but it does in Device manager. This problem can be fixed by switching around the sata cables on the mobo, but it's not a permanent fix.
Completely randomly (in idle, after and during usage) it starts to spin up again and again and again. It sounds like it resets for some reason, the head motor and the spinner motor can be heard starting up repeatedly in 3 second intervals. Then it just stops, it's back to normal. Win10 doesn't seem to lose track of it, however sometimes when music is playing from it, it cuts out for half a sec.

The PSU is a Be quiet! straight power E9 680w 80+ gold (EOL). It's about 5 years old.
It powers a

• z270 board with
• 4 DIMMs at factory voltage,
• a 7700k with +35mV,
• an MSI gaming  gtx 980 at stock,
• 8 fans,
• a small pump,
• an SSD,

and another barracuda (1tb, about 2 years old), which works fine.
Previously it was pushing an FX8320 at 1.4V and an r9280X for about 3 years. 
Could it have gotten weaker in the past 5 years?


 

[pkr_newb]

Have you checked the sectors with something like Crystal Disk or HD Tune?

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8 minutes ago, 00RaZoR11 said:

I have this few months old HDD, 2tb, 7200rpm. Storage space is 50% utilized, defragmented with auslogics, now allegedly 0% fragmented.

I suspect it's either a windows update messing with me, or the PSU dying. The drive should be fine, since it works, no data corruption, no s.m.a.r.t. issues, good temp (30C).

It's the D drive in win10, there are applications installed on it. Since yesterday sometimes windows failes to recognize it properly at startup. It won't show up in the explorer, but it does in Device manager. This problem can be fixed by switching around the sata cables on the mobo, but it's not a permanent fix.
Completely randomly (in idle, after and during usage) it starts to spin up again and again and again. It sounds like it resets for some reason, the head motor and the spinner motor can be heard starting up repeatedly in 3 second intervals. Then it just stops, it's back to normal. Win10 doesn't seem to lose track of it, however sometimes when music is playing from it, it cuts out for half a sec.

The PSU is a Be quiet! straight power E9 680w 80+ gold (EOL). It's about 5 years old.
It powers a

• z270 board with
• 4 DIMMs at factory voltage,
• a 7700k with +35mV,
• an MSI gaming  gtx 980 at stock,
• 8 fans,
• a small pump,
• an SSD,

and another barracuda (1tb, about 2 years old), which works fine.
Previously it was pushing an FX8320 at 1.4V and an r9280X for about 3 years. 
Could it have gotten weaker in the past 5 years?


 

Nah, I don't think it is the PSU. What task are running while you are doing something.

[00RaZoR11]

2 hours ago, Factory OC said:

Nah, I don't think it is the PSU. What task are running while you are doing something.

Windows media player (with a 72 item list), bittorrent, chrome. Background applications which use the disc are avast client service and the Steam Client Bootstrapper. 
This is just the way it's been running for the past year or so. I don't understand why suddenly the drive tends to act up.

2 hours ago, oxyfury said:

Have you checked the sectors with something like Crystal Disk or HD Tune?

CrystalDisk shows it's "good", with 1300hrs power on, 390 times powered on. Every spec (even the "worst") seems to be quite far from the threshold. Manufacturer states "reliability/data integrity" 2400hrs per year with 24/7 operation.
Currently running an error scan with hd tune pro. -> quick scan revealed 0 bad sectors.
I normal scanned the sectors which were under use while doing my stuff (hd tune has a nice "disk monitor"), and still nothing.

It did it even though the only things running are chrome and hd tune.... task manager shows no major disc access (aside from hd tune).