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Jarvist

Jarvist

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I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST3750528AS 750GB hdd as a external drive in a dynex 3.5" usb 3.0 enclosure. The drive seemed to be acting weird but still getting transfer speeds of 160-180 mbps so I decided to run HD Tune on the drive to see what the deal was and here are the results:
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I did some research into a solution or possible fix and it seems the only real solution is to make the harddrive think that those sectors do not exist and skip over them. Anyone have an idea of how large that size of corruption is and why its wreaking my benchmark but not having much of an influence on my actual transfer speeds (other than initial lag and sometimes it will jump as low as 40mbps +-10 for a few seconds)

Thanks in advance for the input!
 
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popatim
Your primary concern should be backing up any important data ASAP and do not use the drive until you are ready to do so.

The drive will handle the bad sectors automatically, See Reallocated Sectors, by moving the data to a reserved area of the drive. Usually once bad sectors start they continue to grow then stop for a while, then they take off again and escallate until the drives dies. There's no telling how long you have, it could be years or it could be minutes.

You can always run an error checking on the drive with both options enabled to have the system go thru the entire drive looking for bad sectors. This will take several hours and I would not do this until after I had backups made if I were you.
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Your primary concern should be backing up any important data ASAP and do not use the drive until you are ready to do so.

The drive will handle the bad sectors automatically, See Reallocated Sectors, by moving the data to a reserved area of the drive. Usually once bad sectors start they continue to grow then stop for a while, then they take off again and escallate until the drives dies. There's no telling how long you have, it could be years or it could be minutes.

You can always run an error checking on the drive with both options enabled to have the system go thru the entire drive looking for bad sectors. This will take several hours and I would not do this until after I had backups made if I were you.
 
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Jarvist

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Well the drive didn't/doesn't have anything important on it, I just use it to transfer files like video, backups of games, hardware update/software so not anything I'm worried of losing.. By the sounds of it I should probably invest in a better drive before this one goes out? This drive hasn't changed any for the few weeks i've used it, is that any indicator its good to at least work for a while?
 
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