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Hi mjf Im on to that now

Mmmm not looking to good

This is my main backup drive USB attached Seagate GoFlex which is the limiting factor for speed.

Here are my results 750GB USB2 portable


Sorry to say your HDD is looking a bit sick. Read speed is way too low. Defragmenting may help but your reallocated sector count I think is too high for the number of hours on the HDD.
With CrystalDiskInfo go to Function>Health status settings
as shown. Try setting your threshold warning just above the current count and see how it behaves over say the next month.

But I think your drive is may be stuffed Danny.

Edit: I believe the RAW values of sector counts are the actual number

Hi mjf

Try setting your threshold warning just above the current count and see how it behaves over say the next month.

Not sure what you mean by this can you explain please

I took my data off and gave it a good clean.These are the results after a clean all and full format

mjf said:

With the sliders I'd set the threshold of warning "Reallocated sector count" to say C9. Your current reading is C7. Your post before last it was BA.

The speeds still look a bit low to me but for your PC & ext HDD they could be normal. What I think you need to watch is "Reallocated Sector Count". If it climbed from C7 to C9 in say 1 month then if it was my HDD, I wouldn't trust it.
Is it still under warranty by any chance?????

Thanks mjf

No warranty unfortunately. They do still look a tad slow but an improvement none the less. Would enabling Write Caching on the drive help (this is not my area at all, Ive never lost a HDD before).
Will do as you suggested with the reallocated sector count but must admit I don't understand it at all. What do the numbers and letters mean.
I'm just going on the school run so going to run a full chkdsk /f/r whilst out.Will check in when I get back.

Thankyou for the help

Danny


Edit - Sorry mate where's C9 on the sliders I don't understand it

mjf said:

chkdsk is a good idea.
I'm certainly only a little bit knowledgeable here. As I understand it reallocated sectors are bad sectors which have been mapped out by the firmware. I think when they start to grow too quickly, it is an indicator that your disk is failing.

C7 hex = 12x16+7 = 199 sectors have needed to be reallocated.
In absolute terms I would have thought this high for a disk with ~1000hours on it.
Setting

It's just a reference point. It doesn't "fix" anything.
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I managed to find the warranty for that drive and got a replacement through yesterday. They sent me a Seagate instead of Hitachi(not sure if thats an upgrade of not)but alls well again.



Thanks for all the help

Danny