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Low Health HDD

Posted: 2020.10.22. 18:19
by sbasu
I have a Seagate 8TB HDD, which shows 3% Health, though Surface scan has shown only one bad sector. Can I use this disk, instead of scrapping, use as the shelf-back up (3-2-1) system, with the new healthy one as the active one connected to desktop ?

Re: Low Health HDD

Posted: 2020.10.23. 20:00
by hdsentinel
In general, we can't expect too much from a hard disk with as low health as 3%.

For secondary storage (for not critical data) yes, it may be still acceptable and may work - but generally you can expect data corruption / data loss.