Hard Disk Monitoring

Disk Repair Results: Only 5 sectors needing repair. Health increased 4% to 62% Performed after removing the drive from its USB enclosure and connecting with a Maiwo 2-bay HDD USB docking station. SnapX1 20240411_093634199 Storagetest.dll.png SnapX1 20240411_093753465 Storagetest.dll.png SnapX1 20240...

My 5TB external 2.5" Seagate BUP Portable HDD has 4% health and I had errors trying to copy some files off of the drive. SnapX1 20240409_224938019 HDSentinel.png My plan is: (1) Make a "forensic sector copy" clone of the drive using Macrium Reflect (i.e. copy all sectors whether used ...

Thank you! I'll pass that info to the developer of WinCatalog because that's where it would be useful to me. But I have no idea how many of his users might have HD Sentinel installed or would install it if WinCatalog had that capability.

Interesting. I started running separate sequential write (random data) and then read tests because I wanted to see the separate write and read graphs for my new nvme drives to see their behavior but didn't realize that's not as robust as the combined test. (Not really critical for a new drive with n...

Any advice for buying a used hard drive? How to avoid any tricks that sellers use to hide known problems? Are refurbished drives safe or likely to have recurring problems? Locally, here in Indonesia, there are many 100% health drives for sale that are 9+ years old with zero or under 100 hours. I hav...

In preparation to dedupe my USB drives, last year I catalogued all of my disks with WinCatalog. Now that I finally get back two the project, two of my disks are failing, with 10% health! Both a source disk and one of its backups. Although I surely had Hard Disk Sentinel installed, I didn't notice an...

I ran three more tests of read only (sequential, butterfly and random) that all consistently ran just below 3000 MB/s.

I partitioned 93% since I don't know how much overprovisioning is built into this drive, and now to start filling it as a data drive.

FYI, After the reinitialization test on 4TB, I was surprised that the drive was partitioned but I assume that's normal.
But easily changed back to a single GPT drive.

12. Reinitialization test: Took 12 hours Started at 260 MB/s and later dropped to 80 MB/s (read) and 240 MB/s (write). Screenshot (1623).png Screenshot (1625).png It passes again, so I guess that it's working ok despite the earlier problems with tests 5, 6 & 7 (above). In comparison, my Samsung ...

(repeat with the last two images) 11. Write + Read Test sequential, zeros: write (56 min) mostly 1200 MB/s. read took 80 min, varying between 800 and 1400 MB/s Screenshot (1548).png Screenshot (1562).png I'm surprised that there's so much variation in the read speed. I was not doing anything on the ...

What should I think of this drive? Lexar NM790 4TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD PN: LNM790X004T-RNNNG Computer: Lenovo X1 Extreme Gen 1 20MF0015AD 2019 (Q1) There is no short or extended self-test. Is this common or does it indicate a problem with the drive? (I've never had a drive without this fu...

Thank you, So a reinitialization test deletes the partitions. I missed that. ok. No problem then. Good. Thank-you. FYI, By "reinitialization testing on partition 3 only" I mean using the test configuration to only test the blocks that correspond to that partition (i.e. 7230 to 9999) (I ret...

Thank you, So a reinitialization test deletes the partitions. I missed that. ok. No problem then. Good. Thank-you. FYI, By "reinitialization testing on partition 3 only" I mean using the test configuration to only test the blocks that correspond to that partition (i.e. 7230 to 9999) (I ret...

Old MyBook 4TB USB drive (6% health); Created 3 partitions in order to isolate an area with errors (see my earlier post) and full formatting partitions 1 & 3: Partition 1. Good 0-7170 = 2,736,021 MB (now tests 100% good) Partition 2. Error 7171-7229 = 22,129 MB (not tested, will not use) Partiti...

On one Windows 10 Lenovo T430s laptop I have had seemingly random USB HDD disconnects. Are there any (simple) tools to test the USB controllers, ports, hubs & cables? So far, I have only found this Microsoft tool: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/usbcon/usb-test-tools Th...

Non-critical questions to aid my understanding: (Q1) What's the difference between a damaged sector and a bad sector? (Q2) After a repair or re-initialization test, there should be no weak sectors because they have all been reclassified as good/damaged/bad? (That's why tests don't state the number o...

Is it reasonably safe to use this repaired drive for secondary backup? When connecting a 6+ year old MyBook 4TB USB 3.0 WDBACW0040HBK-H1 3813B with Hitachi drive that had not been used for several years, it quickly reported 2224 weak sectors. (Only has 32 hours of use but was shipped in airline bagg...

Absolutely worth buying! I have had Hard Disk Sentinel for years. The report window appears every time that I restart but everything is always good, so I almost ignore it. Until I was consolidating my old backup USB drives and one 2TB USB HDD reported 88% health and I "panicked." Backed up...