Is my 1TB WD Blue failing?

immortalgamer · Oct 27, 2013

I bought a WD blue HDD just for storage a couple of weeks ago. I moved almost 100GB of my data into it.

I wanted to check the health of the drive, so today I used Western Digital Lifeguard Diagnostic Tool to do some tests. I did a "Quick Test" on the drive and got an error saying:

06-Quick Test on drive 2 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 102 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 2!

I also used HD Tune and CrystalDiskInfo to check the drive's health and both displayed a "Reallocated Sector Count" warning.

What should I do?

spooky2th · Oct 27, 2013

In would do a full format of the HD and then try saving the data to it again. Don't forget to give it a drive letter and you are probably better off formatting it as a logical drive if you are using it for storage.

das_stig · Oct 27, 2013

BIOS compatible with 3TB drive ?

immortalgamer · Oct 27, 2013

das_stig :

Yeah.

lonewolf7 · Oct 27, 2013

If both HD Tune and CrystalDiskInfo gives a warning, then nothing to think of, just RMA the drive ASAP.

spooky2th · Oct 27, 2013

I bet if windows does a complete format the problem will be solved. Those errors seem me to be formatting problems. Possibly the drive was not formatted by windows previously, instead by some other software.

spooky2th · Oct 27, 2013

As every drive series is different, sector reallocation is a poor indicator of drive health. Some large drives don't have enough data (user submitted records of "good" drive information), so they default to the danger readings of much smaller drives.

In short, you should worry if reallocated sectors is increasing consistently. If the number is constant after several boots, then it isn't a problem. If it increases consistently then you should be worried.

Like I said, I would let windows do a complete format to a logical drive with a letter and then reload the data. Keep a check on the drive to see if the problem gets worse. If the format helps, then good. If there still is a problem when checking, just make sure that the problem is not growing.

immortalgamer · Oct 28, 2013

spooky2th :

I'm not sure if reallocated sectors is increasing, but it's currently at 256, which I guess is really bad.

I did a windows format as a logical drive, as you suggested, but it didn't help. I also did an "Extended Test" using WD Lifeguard Diagnostic Tool, and it gave me an error saying "Too many bad sectors."

So, I think I should RMA, because this HDD can probably die anytime.

spooky2th · Oct 28, 2013

Yes, I probably would be RMA'ing the drive too, for peace of mind.

If your drive is two or more terabytes, 256 is probably not bad at all, just miniscule.

immortalgamer · Oct 29, 2013

spooky2th :

Yeah, I think I'm gonna RMA it, cause' the Reallocation sector count has increased to 263 in just one day.

Here's a screenshot of HD Tune, by the way:

The "status" is "ok" though, so I'm not sure if this is a serious warning or not.

lonewolf7 · Oct 29, 2013

Try http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html if it says "Caution" or "Warning" for health status then RMA the drive.

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