Hard Disk Monitoring

Thank you again. Since 2.5" HDDs are cheaper as external drives compared to buying them "bare", all my current 2.5" storage/high capacity drives were bought as external drives (ST4000LM024-Maxtor M3, WD40NPZZ-Intenso, WD50NPZZ-Intenso) ..but it was becoming a problem when dealing...

Thank you very much for your time. As I begin to see it, SMR drives may actually be really hard to assess regarding their health condition, since what would normally be considered a downward trajectory with CMR drives, could be interpreted as part of the course for SMR drives. e.g. unless I start ge...

For information purposes, if you allow me, I will post the drives' results in HDDScan Butterfly test. 1) The first drive seems to struggle here, with most of the sectors taking <50ms to access and speed ranging from ~17.000 Kb/s to ~50.000Kb/s https://i.postimg.cc/85NhPwN5/hddscan1-butterfly.jpg 2) ...

Thank you very much for your answer. I really hope they're OK, as the opposite would mean I would have to transition back to 3.5" drives on the whole, meaning going back to endless searches for vibration damping / decoupling, soundproofing, full 1.0mm steel cases (anything lower will vibrate an...

I recently ran the Re-Initialization Surface Test on two WD50NPZZ (SMR) 2.5" drives. They're connected to SATA (embedded AsMedia motherboard controller) and the results are making me doubt the reliability of the drives. None of them have weak/pending/damaged or bad sectors & both successful...