Smart Data Deciphering Please?

[dlockers]

Hi folks,

My 3TB RED drive is reporting 0% fitness. I'm using SpeedFan as I have done for a decade or more. Please educate me if there are more appropriate tools.

Is this drive kaput?



It was used to mirror a slow moving network file share for about 8 years. It lives/lived in an external caddy.

 

[dlockers]

Nearly 70k power on hours, and 12 pending sectors isn't a great sign. But the tricky bit is guessing how much life it has left, it could run that way for a number of years or go kaput tomorrow.

Thanks for the bad omen. Just logged in and the drive has totally disappeared

I use Clear Disk Info now, but some people still like CrystalDiskInfo. Post screenshots either or both of these.

As above, the drive seems to have totally gone now. Lucky I did my back-up to the cloud just in time.

I have ran CDI for my other drives though, could you take a look please?

Kingston 240GB - Windows Disk


Unused Spare Disk I found from an old Laptop about 9 years ago.


1TB Media Drive:


SanDisk SSD

 

[dlockers]

Uh-oh

 

[dlockers]

Can anyone help me decipher the above please?

It seems to flip between warning and OK?

 

[dlockers]

What does CrystalDiskInfo say? The above screenshot from Clear Disk Info would be enough for me to backup all the data from it, while waiting for a replacement.

If the drive allows you to, wipe it then go to home on it with a hammer.

What do you mean?

I can't quite work out if it was just a glitch. It is now showing 'OK' with a meagre 798 'powered on' hours.

In fact the thing that was flagged (Error Correction Count) now seems to have disappeared entirely?