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HDD Regen and reallocated sectors

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Sakura90:
Hi, I seem to have bad luck with drives.... =/

Yesterday I was copying some files (60 GB) from my system drive, a 500GB WD Blue, to one of the backups. Somewhere along the process transfer speeds drop to 20, 15 and 5 MB/s and then everything freezes, the HDD activity led remaining fully lit. I could barely reach the start menu, so I pushed the reset button :P

Upon rebooting I check the SMART and found this:


How nice. I don't know if those begin popping up in the past or if they appeared all together when that happened. Still, everything on the disk seems to be intact, no errors till now and no new "reallocated" sectors (almost 36 hours of non-stop operation). I know, you'll blame my PSU, but I have several HDDs attached to it (and are older than the system drive) and they never had any prob. Including the one I was transferring the files to when the "freeze" happened, a Samsung HD204UI.

The question is, would it be "safe" to have HDD Regenerator to "fix" the sectors? (does it move the reallocation count back to 0?). And then a full format. I'm not seeing any "offline uncorrectable" for now and no data appears to be lost/damaged. All the files that were being read during the "freeze" are intact (by checksums) and the drive operates now at full speed.

Or just head to RMA directly? Would this warrant a direct replacement? But then I would need to get a new HDD for the meantime (and sell the new drive if I get a replacement), losing money in the process <_< (that due to my useless currency, is almost 5 times what costs you in USD) :-\


Not that I'm storing here any vital information, just the downloads of the moment :P. Also what intrigues me is what could had lead to all those reallocations. The PSU and voltages are fine (it's a CoolerMaster EPP 500w with an Athlon II 450, everything else is onboard), and the rest of my disks, which are older, never had any crappy sectors <_<

Freedom Kira:
Did you mean to include a screenshot?

kitamesume:
why do you keep mentioning "its not the power" so many times?

its obviously a bad drive since the other HDDs, even older, are still working fine. RMA or get something else.

vuzedome:
HDD dying, don't be sad, this happens.
Speaking of hard drives, read/write errors, is it something to be worried about?

nstgc:

--- Quote from: vuzedome on May 14, 2012, 07:12:55 AM ---HDD dying, don't be sad, this happens.
Speaking of hard drives, read/write errors, is it something to be worried about?

--- End quote ---

I sure hope not. All my hard drives seem to have high counts of both, especially my WD VelociRaptor (Something like 300 read/write errors per second). Seems to work fine thought.

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