PC Hard Drive Diagnostics

Sagar_20 · Sep 25, 2017

I just want to know how long my PC Hard Drive is expected to last. I've got a Seagate Barracuda 1TB, 7200 rpm that has been functioning since July 2011, so now its been over 6 years and i'm afraid it may fail anytime as i do not have backups.
Please suggest me a software that can do this for me. Or anything, but it must work.

rgd1101 · Sep 25, 2017

Do backup.

DR_Luke · Sep 25, 2017

If it is the 7200.12, you are on borrowed time. 95% of them we are getting these days at our data recovery lab are completely fatal head crashes. Of the 5%, most are being held together by a thread.

Here are a few pics of actual 7200.12 drives I've assessed:

Seagate 7200.12 Head Crash 1
Seagate 7200.12 Head Crash 2
Seagate 7200.12 Head Crash 3

If you test the drive, be sure not to do so until you have your data backed up. The very test that you run, could be enough to cause the downward spiral of hard drive completely crashing and all your data being lost forever.

Personally, if I were in your shoes, I'd both backup the data and replace the drive at the same time.

Deleted member 1443762 · Sep 25, 2017

What causes the head to crash? And how do you know if it was the head?

Sagar_20 · Sep 25, 2017

DR_Luke :

Thanks
I really didn't know this and to be honest i've ran the SeaTools software a couple of times in past, but i was lucky that the drive didn't fail. I would better replace it with some SSHD or even a SSD, instead.

Phillip Corcoran · Sep 25, 2017

Please start your own thread if you have questions to ask the experts here.

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