HDD at risk?

[Ryota kise]

All on a sudden, it's showing that my HDD is at risk!! It's a WD 3TB Blue! is it a serious thing? should i do something? ...

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you have backup? If not make then now.

 

Its probably reporting smart errors, check it with something like crystal disk info.

 

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

If you haven't already, back up that drive immediately! If your don't have a drive (preferably two) to backup to, shut down the drive and don't power it up again until you get a backup drive. If the drive at risk is out of warranty, replace it with a 4TB or 6TB drive; for some reason, the 3TB and 5TB drives have had a higher failure rate than the even number drives.

[Lenovo1984]

Check what CrystalDiskInfo says about the drive. I'd go ahead and make a backup though. 

[Ryota kise]

now its showing at the start! i think i have to replace it! but i have no other extra hdd to backup my anime, eng series and game collection!!

[Ryota kise]

12 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you have backup? If not make then now.

 

Its probably reporting smart errors, check it with something like crystal disk info.

 

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Ryota kise said:

 

yep that looks bad, make sure backups are good, rma the drive if you can.

 

 

[Lenovo1984]

10 hours ago, Ryota kise said:

 

You've got a dying drive on your hands, back it up to whatever you have (try to minimize what you write to it) and replace it. Does the drive still have any warranty?