Hard Disk Monitoring

I understand that the values can fluctuate but on these drives they seem to always be around the worst possible as in image below: Hardware ECC 1.jpg The PC will boot into Windows and appear to mostly work ok but at a random time can lock up, the screen will go blank, the PC will appear to have cons...

I replaced the hard drives in one of my PC recently with brand new 1TB Seagate Barracuda model ST1000DM010 drives but seem to be having problems with Windows 10 since installing these new drives. Looking at the SMART data, the drives are showing very poor values for parameter 195 "Hardware ECC ...

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I have 2 hard drives in a PC, both the same model. HD Sentinel has started reporting "Lifetime writes" for one of the drives, but not the other. (please see images attached) Question 1: Why has it started reporting this when it didn't before for this drive? Question 2: Why does it only sho...