Firecuda 2TB, should I risk another?

hyperseven · 3 May 2018 at 13:37

Bought one of these for my new laptop to upgrade from the 1tb installed.

After three days notice some games installed on the drive would not run.

Installed HDD sentinel and said drive was 14% health :eek:

Returned this today but want a 2tb+ drive but slim pickings.

Was I just unlucky or are these drives poo?

hyperseven · 3 May 2018 at 17:00

t31os said:
Just bad luck most of the time, it happens, fortunately problem drives usually play up within the first week or few days. Had the same happen with a WD blue we recently added to my fathers system(problems started on day 2), sent back, got a replacement and everything is spot on now(we're a couple months along now and not a hitch).

Well ordered another as had a tenner off voucher, should be here between six and eight.

If this craps out I won't be happy.

hyperseven · 3 May 2018 at 17:11

bremen1874 said:
If you want to test a drive use the manufacturer's diagnostic.

The results from third-party apps should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

How so

is it not reading the same SMART data?

hyperseven · 3 May 2018 at 17:24

bremen1874 said:
SMART data isn't consistent between different drives and manufacturers.

Many third-party apps misinterpret the results.

Fair enough. I'll grab seatools for this new drive and give it a good going over before I clone the old one.