Hard Disk Monitoring

Maybe I was just shock, because this is the first time I bought a Western Digital HDDs. And I saw spin-up time value on my new WD HDDs which all my Seagate HDD does not have but they survived for 7 years until now. Like this one: Sample of Seagate HDD.JPG but it is newer one but they are same have 0...

I have two Western Digital hard drive that I bought from different seller and it is different type too, it's WD40EZAZ (SMR) which is I bought around 8 months ago from overseas(Amazon) and the other one I bought online from local distributor is WD40EZAX (CMR) which is just 3 days old, they are both b...

Is seperate running of Surface Write and then Read Test after is good enough as WRITE + read test combine, and maybe Reinitialized disk surface test too for a new HDD? I don't wanna run a too much time test because I am afraid that if a run it longtime that it takes a day or two and end up power dis...

I have 1 SSD for OS and 3 backup drive for data saving, name Drive C for SSD, D and E without volume label and no problem interaction with HWmonitor app for both 1tb HDD. Meanwhile Drive F has a volume label of BackUpHardDrive and is the one with increasing command timeout stats counter whenever I o...

Yes thank you, your right, I already run Read Surface Test and Write Surface Test separately and was not found any dark green blocks. When you said "Generally SMR drives may show such behaviour: during the Reinitialise Disk Surface test". Its just strange to me because I have 3 SMR drives ...

Hello. May I ask if is it normal for a brand new Hard Disk Drive to have a very dark green and slow blocks in Surface Test Reinitialized Disk? Will it goes bad and became a bad sector faster than those lighter block ones if I put some files on it if I choose to accept and use the disk? Or can I ask ...