WD Elements Issue

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I have a WD Elements External Hard drive which I store media on.

Some media buffers at random places.

If I copy this media back to my PC the speed can vary dramatically from full speed to a few kb/s

If I then copy the media back to hd it works fine (I presume its been copied to different sectors)

I have done a CHKDSK on my drive and it brings up no errors.

Any ideas what the problems is? and is there a tool which can be used to mark all sectors unusable which are faulty?

(its not bandwidth issues)
 
Ok thank you will try hd tune pro.

It’s a drive with a lot of big media files. I don’t think I have enough space to copy of all the files onto another drive to format unfortunately.
 
Decided to delete some files and then copy the rest to hard drive.

The good files are copying at 55MB/s but drops to a few KB/s on the one that buffer....

Will formating fix the drive so when i copy back it wont do it again?
 
I have run CrystalDiskInfo on it

Read error rate is Red and data for it say 18371 (threshold 51) - Pre Failure imminent loss of data

Also

Current Pending Sector Count for data says 19 and is a warning.

Chkdsk and format are all Okay.

Is there anything I can do to salvage this drive or mark sectors as bad?
 
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Eddie99 said:
4TB 2.5" portable drive will be SMR which will affect write performance, but after checking your original post you had issues with read speed.

Do you have any reallocated sectors in CrystalDiskInfo after formatting it and writing new data to it?
Click to expand...

I have 0 reallocated sector count

The other 2 haven't changed and are still Read error rate is Red and data for it say 18371 / Current Pending Sector Count for data says 19
 
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