About 10min ago Windows interrupted my peaceful browsing with a warning one of my HDD's (a Seagate ST31000528AS, at least 4yrs old) is on the brink of collapse, and that I should back it up immediately. Luckily its an old drive I had in a previous rig, so its loss isn't really that bad or unexpected. Unfortunately I have been using it as my secondary storage drive and it has accumulated quite bit, more than my primary could handle if I copied everything over into that. I'm currently copying over anything important over to my primary (a much newer Barracuda drive), but that may take some time.
Crystal Disk Info says it has 36 Reallocated Sectors, out of a threshold of 36. That seems to be the only thing that's throwing up warnings.
So I'm asking how severe my problem actually is, while I realize such things can be tricky to guess, how long would you estimate I roughly have or is this not a big issue at all?
Can provide images of what Crystal Disk is saying if that will help.
Crystal Disk Info says it has 36 Reallocated Sectors, out of a threshold of 36. That seems to be the only thing that's throwing up warnings.
So I'm asking how severe my problem actually is, while I realize such things can be tricky to guess, how long would you estimate I roughly have or is this not a big issue at all?
Can provide images of what Crystal Disk is saying if that will help.