- Jul 23, 2008
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I got a Seagate 1.5 TB external hard drive (ST1500LM003) about 2 and a half years ago. Turned on HD Sentinel and it gives it a health percentage of 14% with "112 bad sectors". It also says "276 errors occurred during data transfer". Not sure what that means since I've transferred files all the time back and forth and nothing has become corrupt (as far as I know). The only thing that sometimes happens is that it disconnects and reconnects from the computer randomly.
I tested it and the Short DST failed, Short Generic passed.
When I did a surface test, there didn't seem to be more problems than the ones stated. 112 sectors seems to be a tiny percentage.
Since I'm not an expert on hard drive health, I pose the question: Should I get a new drive? I'd rather be safe than sorry... but I'd like to know if the drive is actually much more likely to fail, or if it the risk increase is just tiny.
Thanks in advance.
I tested it and the Short DST failed, Short Generic passed.
When I did a surface test, there didn't seem to be more problems than the ones stated. 112 sectors seems to be a tiny percentage.
Since I'm not an expert on hard drive health, I pose the question: Should I get a new drive? I'd rather be safe than sorry... but I'd like to know if the drive is actually much more likely to fail, or if it the risk increase is just tiny.
Thanks in advance.
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