Urgent How down bad is this external Hard drive? help please.

[daring dragon]

I have a seagate onetouch hard drive. Purchased it brand new a couple of months ago. Wanted to run crystaldisk on it to check the health of all my hard drives and Seagate one gave me this. I know I have to switch over the data, but how much longer do I have? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

[wide stirrup]

you can write to the sectors that are still good

its a spinning disk and think of the broken ones as those that are on the disk but unable to be written to

[daring dragon]

what are the chances of the drive shitting the bed soon? i dont wanna loose the data on it

ohhhh i see

its insane how my few month old seagate is like this but my 5 year old WD drive has good health

[wide stirrup]

if you leave it writing to the whole device then it could possibly get messed up, however it can last x time until all the sectors are dead

[wide stirrup]

probably had a faulty thing inside it, seagate has a warranty though

[daring dragon]

yea I plan on using that

thanks for your help!! i appreciate it a lot

[wide stirrup]

https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/warranty-and-replacements/

[daring dragon]

gonna buy another WD to save the data in the meanwhile

[daring dragon]

god bless!!!

[wide stirrup]

seagate pays shipping

[daring dragon]

oh nice. do i gotta send this one back before or after they send me a new one?

hmm this is weird

restarted crystaldisk and got this

[wide stirrup]

you send them this one and they send a new one, call their support and they'll direct you

[daring dragon]

i did do the eject thing before taking off the previous drive

[daring dragon]

thanks!!!

[wide stirrup]

don't worry about the results as you'll just get a new drive

[daring dragon]

oh bet yea imma do that to be safe

[wide stirrup]

if there's important stuff on there and you'll like them to recover it then ask (they most likely will since its a few months old). However you can just use the disk eraser tool in windows to erase the entire drive

[daring dragon]

oh wow i see

thank you for your advice!

i shall do that

[wide stirrup]

no problem

[jade wind]

Unless he got a drive with a guaranteed Data Recovery warranty, then he will have to pay the cost to recover it out of pocket.

[jade wind]

If Seagate decides that your drive does not warrant free data recovery, you can send it in to Louis Rossmann's new location in Texas.

https://rossmanngroup.com/data-recovery-service-austin/

[burnt dagger]

Hum your crystal disk report of a bad drive is about a WD not a seagate !

[jovial tangle]

yeah something here isn't adding up

[jovial tangle]

do you have another 2tb drive connected to the machine?

[wide stirrup]

if its damage on their part due to a faulty component they have to pay for it

also louis rossmann stuff is way too expensive

they wanted 250$ to solder a razer blade DC-IN part I supplied and check for anything else. Meanwhile here it was 100$ CAD

[jovial tangle]

that's like saying the engine mechanic specialist shop wanted a lot of money to replace a car radio

a dc in jack isn't the kind of repair you'd go to rossmann for

[wide stirrup]

he upcharges too much

[jovial tangle]

he charges a fair value for the kind of stuff you'd actually want his shop to do

stuff your local phone chop shop can't

like cleanroom HDD repair

[wide stirrup]

one government supported organization that does data recovery in my province is 150$ cad done in 24 hours or less

[jovial tangle]

government supported organization

we don't have those in the USA

drivesavers is probably the gold standard for HDD recovery and they're charging like

$1000 to look at a drive these days

[wide stirrup]

well to be fair its more profit driven there

[jade wind]

So is Louis, but his profits go in to making sure his employees are well-taken care of.

[daring dragon]

okay so i kinda figured it out. i think WD and seagate have different thresholds for sectors, so when i'd eject the WD and connect the seagate, crystaldisk would update the values but not the tresholds

so the drive is okay when i relaunch crystaldisk

i realized that a bit later and learned that i was worried for no reason and the drive is fine

no clue why seagate and WD have different thresholds tho, but i guess its prob due to their testing etc

[stone wasp]

The drive is full of spinning metal going at 5400 rpm and with a read/write head that is hovering like a micrometer above it. The fact that it works at all is miracle. And that it survives any movement while it's spinning is another miracle. The third miracle is that people have figured out to manufacture these things and package them in an external form factor for PCs, where they get regularly moved while in use.. that's the final miracle. Your external drive having a few bad sectors on it is just business as usual.

[daring dragon]

haha thanks

yea i think i was just being overly dramatic

the drive has data i cant loose so i was being extra cautious

[stone wasp]

Also, on the different tresholds, they could be relative to capacity. So if it's a percentage, that'd be different on two drives that have different total capacity.

But it's two different companies, makes sense they'd have different tresholds based on their own knowledge.

[daring dragon]

ahh i see. appreciate your help Osku!!

[floral finch]

What it's only 63 hours running..u u shud hve cheked for a defective drive when I bought it and gotten it replaced or so