Hard drive playing up

swampydrill

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Sep 27, 2011
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I had a PC eng log into my PC today to check the external hard drive because its connection has been intermittent, he ran a program called HD Sentinel 4.00 pro, it stated that the main external hard drive which is a 1 TB Maxtor oneplus 4 had 30% health left and my Toshiba 500gb portable had 25% health left. I have had issues with both so will change them out, my other hard drives ( internal) which are corsair SSD and a 1 TB Samsung both showed 100% health left. 2 questions, is this software he used any good and what are the best hard drives to get, he said to get WD as you get a 3 yr warranty with them. I have had issues with the PC trying to boot from the USB in the big external drive so would prefer a firewire connection unless USB 3 sorts this issue out