Looks ok to me. Stop worrying so much!
Just keep running CrystalDiskInfo everyday and if the drive color changes to yellow, that's when you know something is not right.
Case closed.
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Looks ok to me. Stop worrying so much!in crystal diskinfo not scan this software
my hdd
Does Crystal Diskinfo use SMART to detect the status of the HDD?Parece ok para mim. Pare de se preocupar tanto!
Continue executando o CrystalDiskInfo todos os dias e, se a cor da unidade mudar para amarelo, é quando você sabe que algo não está certo.
Caso encerrado.
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Yes, Crystal Disk Info uses SMART.Does Crystal Diskinfo use SMART to detect the status of the HDD?
Is there a risk that someone could reset SMART to make the disk appear to be new, unused and error-free?
The best way to find out the health is a destructive write test that will write to every sector and then try to read the value and compare to see if the read value matches the original written value.If they reset SMART, is the only way to find out the true health of the HDD the surface tests or generic long test from seatools?
sudo badblocks -c 2048 -b 4096 -sw /dev/sda
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0x55: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0xff: 51.96% done, 104:14:39 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)
Isolate SeaTools - close all other applications before running a hard disk diagnostic. The main reason for this is to keep the drive focused on SeaTools as much as possible.
Cannot say for sure. Usually bad sectors mean there is some problem with the mechanical head or the chipset or physical quality control issue with the platter surface or some really really tiny microscopic creature got inside and pooped on the sector (tardigrades must poop, no?). Remember one thing: a healthy HDD has NO bad sectors. Zero. If there ever were, they were marked out as bad during the initial manufacturing stage. Hard drives only develop bad sectors when something goes wrong inside them. And also, bad sectors can be soft or hard. Soft sectors can be repaired and often the HDD head is able to read the data from them for a while. This allows you to make a clone of that disk or copy important data off the disk without losing anything. HDD Regenerator is one such software that can "fix" soft sectors. Hard bad sectors are permanent. The HDD head will get stuck trying to read these and won't be able to get past them.if the hdd has some badblocks and bad sectors and the files are written in good sectors and tested without corruption and the HDD is stored during storage the good sectors become bad and the file sectors become bad and corrupt these written files??
what link latest bootable seatools?There is a reason I previously advised (in your multiple threads) do not run ANY other applications while attempting to run SeaTools, particularly any hard disk utilities that try to access SMART data. I was trying to perform a long SMART test with surface scan on my 2TB Western Digital SATA drive a couple months ago, using Western Digital's Drive Utilites. The utility would start out fine but would halt with some generic error. I check all PM settings to be sure the PC would "never" enter sleep, standby, etc.
I finally tracked it down to Crystal Disk Info automatic refresh drive and SMART data at particular intervals e.g. every five minutes. I also saw this same problem when running HD Sentinel. After killing other drive utilities that were vying for access drive and SMART data, the Western Digital utility proceeded and finish without error.
Of course if you use the bootable version of Seatools (or any other manufacturer utility), this won't be any problem since you can't run other applications, anyway.
I didn't understand, you said that if I open the crystal at the time of the seatools scan, the errors are hidden from verification?
The scan aborts at 3% and the drives disconnect from my computer. Crystal Disk Info and SeaTools then remove the USB cable and plug it in again and everything works again.
tcsenter:
Do not have Crystal Disk Info running while you run another utility that tries to get direct (or exclusive) access to a disk. Close out Crystal Disk Info and try again.
HDSentinel has a disk refresh feature that you should use at least every six months to keep the magnetism from getting weaker.but do they easily become corrupted in unused storage or the next time I power them on?
How do you "energize" the HDD? I hope you don't mean that you just turn it on for a few hours (and nothing else).energize the HDD
Any minutesHow do you "energize" the HDD? I hope you don't mean that you just turn it on for a few hours (and nothing else).
Just turning the HDD on won't do anything.Any minutes
Any minutes
HD sentinel is paid to run tests I don't have a license I usually energize the HDD once a year to avoid weakening the magnetism
A hard drive is a mechanical device with an electronic component. It has multiple drive heads skimming about platters spinning at 120 revolutions each second for a 7200RPM drive. Spinning those platters at that speed creates a significant rotational force, which causes vibration. Starting them up creates stress on the mechanical components, as does shutting them down. Applying and removing power creates wear on the electronic components. Like any other mechanical device, they will fail. And, like any electronic device, they will fail.I didn't know that magnetic storage on HDDs was so fragile that it was necessary to make a new copy of the files every year.
Only someone who hasn't faced catastrophic disasters with HDDs would say that.I didn't know that magnetic storage on HDDs was so fragile that it was necessary to make a new copy of the files every year.