- Jul 5, 2014
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Hi,
Don't want to make this too lengthy, as it may be painful to read.
I have a 3YR old SSD (Corsair Neutron XT 240GB), I was getting Intel rapid storage notifications alerting me that one or more errors are being reported with my hard drive.
So, in order to work out what was going wrong, I installed a program which I read was reputable online (HD Sentinel, Free version), and ran some tests.
I have 3 Storage devices in total, and all 3 drives saw the EXACT same results:
- 246 bad sectors
- 40 days to live
- 270 days power-on-time
Bear in mind, all 3 devices were bought months apart, 1 is a 240gb SSD, one is a 1TB HDD, and the other is a 500GB HDD.
I thought this was incredibly odd, and that the chances of such different drives showing such similar results were almost impossible, so i downloaded another 2 applications to compare results (EaseUS and another I cannot remember the name of, sorry).
These new applications showed a grand total of 5 bad sectors on my SSD, which is a huge difference to the HD Sentinel results.
So now I'm incredibly stuck, is my SSD about to die?
I'm asking this:
Is it likely that my SSD will be almost dead after 3 years of use, and has anyone else experienced bizarre results with HD Sentinel before?
EDIT: Corrected 7 yr old SSD to 3 years.
Thanks so much.
Fin
Don't want to make this too lengthy, as it may be painful to read.
I have a 3YR old SSD (Corsair Neutron XT 240GB), I was getting Intel rapid storage notifications alerting me that one or more errors are being reported with my hard drive.
So, in order to work out what was going wrong, I installed a program which I read was reputable online (HD Sentinel, Free version), and ran some tests.
I have 3 Storage devices in total, and all 3 drives saw the EXACT same results:
- 246 bad sectors
- 40 days to live
- 270 days power-on-time
Bear in mind, all 3 devices were bought months apart, 1 is a 240gb SSD, one is a 1TB HDD, and the other is a 500GB HDD.
I thought this was incredibly odd, and that the chances of such different drives showing such similar results were almost impossible, so i downloaded another 2 applications to compare results (EaseUS and another I cannot remember the name of, sorry).
These new applications showed a grand total of 5 bad sectors on my SSD, which is a huge difference to the HD Sentinel results.
So now I'm incredibly stuck, is my SSD about to die?
I'm asking this:
Is it likely that my SSD will be almost dead after 3 years of use, and has anyone else experienced bizarre results with HD Sentinel before?
EDIT: Corrected 7 yr old SSD to 3 years.
Thanks so much.
Fin
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