Hard Disk Monitoring

Drive had no previous known problems - except "There are 8 bad sectors on the disk surface" Power on 383 days - installed 4 March 2013 Today I got these warnings: Critical value degradation [9 %] 15/07/2014 2:36:10 PM,#198 Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count 65528 -> 0 15/07/2014 2:36:10 P...

Yes - I have found in the past that terminating and restarting Explorer solves it about 50% of the time, generally it get the clovk and bottom bar running, but sometime the system is still unstable and I have to reboot. Since this is a 4 year old WIndows XP machine, and Windows was never re-installe...

My backups are pretty good - crucial files are backed up daily to 2 cloud locations, 2 remote [5 minutes walk away] computers, and 2 local NSA/raids, hopefully all data is also backed up to a different local NAS/raid at least weekly. Yesterday I got more moved sectors increasing from 32 to 40, and t...

I have 1 Drobo with 4 drives, and 3 DLink DNS boxes each with 2 drive bays, that's around 10 terr of disk used for mainly for backups,and they never get tested. The dLink NAS boxes run Linux and have a drive test,but I was told it is useless. If I power off these boxes and pull the drives one at a t...

I have 2 1 terrabyte drives installed - Windows XP 3+ year old box - drive are less than 2 years old. I've been using Acronis Disk monitor for the last couple of years and it keeps showing one drive getting to a temp of 44 and the other at 39. Suddenly today it gave a degradation warning on the hott...