Should I replace my hard drive?

Appleboy45 · February 25, 2018

Lately I've been trying to deal with a 1TB WD Black that's been coming up with bad sectors and has been causing my computer to crash when I try to run a diagnostic on it. Recently, I did a low level format of the hard drive and the bad sectors went away. The drive also now passes diagnostics without causing my computer to crash. Since the drive no longer shows any problems, should I still have to worry about the hard drive. I do have a backup of the data just in case. The drive was being used as a OS drive, but is now used to install games on.

Murasaki · February 25, 2018

It doesn't really solve the problem, those sectors are just marked off, who knows what will happen to the others.

ProjectBox153 · February 25, 2018

It's a mechanical drive. I'd replace it, they're cheap.

Froody129 · February 25, 2018

If you have a non-terrible internet connection I would use it for something like a Steam library (so something easy to download again) and just use it until it breaks.