Hard Disk Monitoring

Forget to mention: if I use USB I use USB3.0 (5-6Gb/s)!

What the hell you're talking about USB2?? If you really had read my post, you should have realized that I use SATA 3 (6Gb/s) and didn't talk about USB 2 by any means!

The speed I got using HD Sentinel was just 6.5-6.8MBs on SATA3, 6Gb/s!

That's it, simple as that!

I used the Surface Test/Reinitialize and the speed was about 6.5-6.8MBs on a WDC 500GB SATA3 HDD while using the same HDD with Drevitalize the destructive write and read test with a setting for slow sectors refreshing 99times by 50ms, the speed was above 48MBs. And that on the same computer. The tes...

If the external drive is connected while you switch on the computer, you could use the BIOS Bootmanager for to check that drive is 'seen' by the BIOS. If not, first things are to check the connection cable (USB, eSATA or whatsoever) is really working. If you have a 2. spare-cable, try that. It's als...

The difference between those two HDD's is just 2 Sectors with 1.024MB (2 x 512Byte).

There a lot different Duplicator Docks available with different capabilities regarding how they're working. I tested several of those from Startech, Aleratech, and others.

Thanks for the reply. Could you please tell me what is the normal writing speed using the Surface Test/Reinitialize on a normal SATA 3 HDD 500GB? And, is there any Log-File for action taken by the user (like Surface Test/Reinitialize etc.) about the may occurred problems with the HDD and so on? As I...

Thanks a lot for your very informative answer. Regarding that HDD with 19% Health, I already reset the counters to -0- and run at this time a new Surface and Repair test in HDSentinel. Will see what will be the outcome after that. In addition, I've another same Hitachi HDD (same Model etc.) which ha...

Thanks for the reply. I'll still carry on the use of Drevitalize. The reasons are simply that DR gives me more info about slow sectors than any other app. And for sure, HD Sentinel will also be used further on. On that HDD I posted that picture from, even after the full Surface test's, there isn't a...

As the title says. I'm new to this software and run at the moment a full Surface test at an HDD which has just 19% Health left. Most of the squares shown are very light green, except a few, which shows a different kind of gree, darker: https://s20.postimg.cc/nqjuntlvx/image.png What are that differe...