Not sure if my ext drive is failing or still good with bad sectors

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buschman31

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I have a external drive that is showing caution in CDI program so i ran windows checkdisk. Can someone explain to me what the checkdisk scan telling me? I dont know if its still failing or just has bad sectors.

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So do u think its still usable as backup to stuff that not needed if it goes boink on me?
 
buschman31 said:
So do u think its still usable as backup to stuff that not needed if it goes boink on me?
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These are mechanical drives. Once one platter starts to fail, it'll eventually affect the others. If it's just stuff that's temporary that you don't need to keep, it should be fine until it goes completely bad.
 
Reallocated sector count raw value is 1F1 if I'm reading right, that's just shy of 500.

I've run drives in production with more and most of them were fine, but that was only cause we didn't have monitoring before I found those and changing drives was disruptive, so I focused on the drives that had active problems impacting service, had thousands of bad sectors, or were growing rapidly. Once we had monitoring in place, we swapped drives at 100 sectors.

For personal drives where you check irregularly, I recommend replacement at 10.

Although, now that drives are super expensive, I'd push a little farther.

The SMART stats seem to indicate you've only used 1% of the spare sectors, and you shouldn't worry until you've used 64% of them... But I don't believe that. And you might have important data on a sector that becomes unreadable.

If it's all second copies of media you can replace or do without, then yeah, no worries. Just pay attention to the primary copies too, so you don't go for a long time with only this.
 
You have 497 reallocated sectors. If that number stays constant and DOES NOT increase you should be ok. Separate from that, good backups are paramount in any case. If the number continues to rise, bin the drive or at least move it to a less important role.
 
So when i do the
mwroobel said:
You have 497 reallocated sectors. If that number stays constant and DOES NOT increase you should be ok. Separate from that, good backups are paramount in any case. If the number continues to rise, bin the drive or at least move it to a less important role.
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Where did u see that at?
 
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