Hard Disk Monitoring

Thanks a bunch.

In my own case on one computer from the past it had an unstable power supply over 60% and any usb powered drives they would start having issues so I moved to using docks with separate power supplies as a way to protect the drive. This lead to another discovery. Brown outs were killing my hard drives...

Why not have a fan on it?

I have a four bay dock full of HDD and have a desktop USB fan blowing air across it all the time. Keep in mind the heat rises and the heat in your tower could be contributing to the overheating.

For the first time I'm seeing 299 bad blocks all grouped together next to each other. Normally in the past I would see them random on other hard drives. Is this a clear indication of a power issue?

I'd like your opinion on this and it may also help others as well. Years ago I went out and bought a UPS that had a nice feature that conditioned the AC stream as it monitored. If it dropped below or exceeded some factory thresholds it would automatically kick in the battery briefly until levels nor...