In over twenty years of building SOHO PCs i have lost just 2 drives. Storage demands usually dictate that they are replaced before the warranty expiry. Ignoring the Hitachi Deskstar that gave me loads of warning that it was going to platter heaven we now have a lump of metal in the rack from Seagate, the ST4000DX001.
HD Sentinel tells me its been up for 141 days. Its almost new.
Its never been cooked. Max 41C; mostly 36C.
HD Sentinel told me last night that the 'health' had decreased from 100% to 62%.
I tried to clone the disk with Acronis True Image (fail)
I tried to run CHKDSK to locate & repair bad sectors (fail).
HD Sentinel told me the health of the disk had decreased to 50% and its life expectancy was 455 days ( it lied about the last part)
SMART encountered a snag - 'Current Pending Sector Count ' & ' Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count' reported a fail at the same sector.
I'm not sure my problems are platter related - I wonder about the controller board.
As I type we are 12 hours through a HDSentinel surface test - 60 hours of read write testing to move the data affected by the bad sector(s), I've got the important data backed up, lost a TB of movies. Not optimistic about recovery. Clutching at straws.
The disk is under warranty to January 2017, but big deal. It will be replaced with mirrored 2 x TOSHIBA PH3300U.
Wish I could afford a disk with a 2 million hour MTBF.
I use 2 x 500gb SSD drives for all programs & online storage. Wish I could find a slow, RELIABLE, affordable archive.
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