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How much of a problem?

Postby LongRunner » March 18th, 2014, 11:12 pm

As of now, my ST31000528AS has 14 reallocated sectors, 2 seek errors, 8 "reported uncorrectable errors", and 2 high fly writes, after 26,675 hours of runtime, 1240 start/stops and 631 power cycles (on Seagates, to my knowledge, the start/stop counter excludes power cycling).

Still have yet to encounter any problem with either WD800JD-00LSA0. As for the ST31000528AS, one of the more annoying things it's been doing recently is seeking for short periods at seemingly random times. Wouldn't be quite so bad if it wasn't such a noisy seeker (I don't have a swap file on it for that reason).
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.

My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA‑H87M‑D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G and WD3003FZEX‑00Z4SA0, Pioneer BDR‑209DBKS and Optiarc AD‑7200S, Seasonic G‑360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3.
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Re: How much of a problem?

Postby c_hegge » March 18th, 2014, 11:28 pm

Keep an eye on those re-allocated sectors. If you get any more of them, it's probably time to save your data and replace the HDD.
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Re: How much of a problem?

Postby LongRunner » May 3rd, 2014, 6:44 am

It's getting worse — up to 22 now (at 27,759 hours, 1,262 start/stops and 638 power cycles). The WD800JD-00LSA0s are still fine, as I expected. With my new-PC-to-be will come a trio of 3TB WD Caviar Blacks (WD3003FZEX to be specific); overkill maybe, but they were the best value (with the 1TB version at $95, the 2TB version at $175, the 3TB version at $225, and the 4TB version at $309 — from PC Case Gear) of the family. It could indeed be another 8+ years before the upgrade after that one, and hardware with a Life Span of Ages is the way I like it.
Information is far more fragile than the HDDs it's stored on. Being an afterthought is no excuse for a bad product.

My PC: Core i3 4130 on GA‑H87M‑D3H with GT640 OC 2GiB and 2 * 8GiB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz, Kingston SA400S37120G and WD3003FZEX‑00Z4SA0, Pioneer BDR‑209DBKS and Optiarc AD‑7200S, Seasonic G‑360, Chenbro PC31031, Linux Mint Cinnamon 20.3.
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