Hard Disk Monitoring

Glad that the drive itself is still in good shape and all I need to do is to unbox it after so many years

Here is what I kept as a record for the "faulty" drive after the Surface test. The read and write also looks normal.

@hdsentinel, I wonder if a bad SATA-to-USB converter may introduce the [half-and-half result](https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/download/file.php?id=1967)? ST5000DM000-1FK178 is the disk that I tested in the beginning of this thread, through its original Seagate enclosure. Right before I send it to B...

RE: partitioning during a Surface Test

I have yet another screenshot to share. This is taken when I tested another old Seagate 4 TB drive. The disk was partitioned again, with the first sector being 2048 GB. Despite being rather old, this one seems to be doing pretty well.

I don't know much about why the partitioning was needed. It was consistent, though, across two of my attempts to run the Surface Test with option "Reinitialize disk surface".

The disk is still offered on Amazon, as "STBV5000100". The model number is SRD00F2 on my unit.

Thanks a lot for explaining how a bad drive can even halt the surface test :) After a power-cycle, I re-run the test and this time all the bad sectors showed up in the second half of the test. In Disk Manager, upon the start of the surface test, I found the 5TB drive was partitioned into two pieces:...

Please advise if the attached Surface Test result is a death sentence to the hard drive. It has now accumulated 1183 bad sectors as of this typing. I was running the "Reinitialize disk surface" job and wonder if I should simply stop the running process and recycle the faulty drive. I tried...