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A few years ago I bought 2 1TB wd black drives. Recently I've heard some funky noises coming from the drive areas, as well as a delay in detecting a drive in BIOS, and increased windows loading times. I downloaded the WD lifeguard diagnostics to test the drives and one of them is failing both the fast and extended tests, citing irreparable bad sectors (I allowed an atempted repair but it failed). This is ok, I've backed up data and will RMA the drive.
What concerns me is the other disk that passes both the quick and extended tests. When the first drive failed, I had a look at the SMART data, and saw the following
Reallocated Sector Count: ID=5, Value=199, Threshold=140, Worst=199, Warranty=1
Makes sense, drive has a lot of bad sectors. I had a look at the drive that passed the tests though, and it has the following:
Reallocated Sector Count: ID=5, Value=200, Threshold=140, Worst=200, Warranty=1
This surprised me, it looks like the drive that passed the test has had practically as many bad sectors as the obviously duff drive. By running the quick tests, it seems like it is this 'good' drive that is making the dodgy noises, not the one reporting fault.
Should I be trying to RMA this drive as well, even though it passed the tests? Can you recommend any other programs I could use to try and test this drive?
Cheers in advance.
What concerns me is the other disk that passes both the quick and extended tests. When the first drive failed, I had a look at the SMART data, and saw the following
Reallocated Sector Count: ID=5, Value=199, Threshold=140, Worst=199, Warranty=1
Makes sense, drive has a lot of bad sectors. I had a look at the drive that passed the tests though, and it has the following:
Reallocated Sector Count: ID=5, Value=200, Threshold=140, Worst=200, Warranty=1
This surprised me, it looks like the drive that passed the test has had practically as many bad sectors as the obviously duff drive. By running the quick tests, it seems like it is this 'good' drive that is making the dodgy noises, not the one reporting fault.
Should I be trying to RMA this drive as well, even though it passed the tests? Can you recommend any other programs I could use to try and test this drive?
Cheers in advance.