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I have an 8Tb Seagate drive that was in my CCTV desktop, the drive went offline so even Windows couldn't detect it, powered the desktop off and back on and the drive was detected and the drive was usable but again the same thing happened, so I pulled the drive out.
Plugged it into another desktop and ran Seatools on it. The very first time it showed errors but only on the long test so I did a repair on the drive and I think it re-allocated a few bad sectors. Since then the drive health is showing as good and I've run a full scan on the drive some 6-7 times with no actions or errors being reported.
Onto the questions, why in use did the drive not re-allocate bad sectors and now that it appears to be working do I trust it? It's been sitting in a drawer ever since then but a month later I did plug it in again and again ran a full test and it found nothing. CCTV data although not important, until an important event occurs
I would love to put it back in as currently I replaced it with a 2Tb drive, so the number of days of clips is reduced.
Plugged it into another desktop and ran Seatools on it. The very first time it showed errors but only on the long test so I did a repair on the drive and I think it re-allocated a few bad sectors. Since then the drive health is showing as good and I've run a full scan on the drive some 6-7 times with no actions or errors being reported.
Onto the questions, why in use did the drive not re-allocate bad sectors and now that it appears to be working do I trust it? It's been sitting in a drawer ever since then but a month later I did plug it in again and again ran a full test and it found nothing. CCTV data although not important, until an important event occurs
I would love to put it back in as currently I replaced it with a 2Tb drive, so the number of days of clips is reduced.
