Launching Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic is a quick way to check drive health by analyzing his SMART status for each drive and displaying 'PASS' and 'FAIL'.ĭetailed SMART data can also be viewed, but requires specialized knowledge to understand.Basically, if 'Value: Current attribute value' or 'Worst: Worst case attribute value' is lower than 'Threshold: Threshold', there is a problem with that attribute, and the disk fails or fails indicates a high probability.Simply put, the higher the current and worst values, the better, and the lower, the worse. SMART is a self-diagnostic function built into HDD and SSD drives to detect faults and predict failures. If I have another hdd crash on me I might just throw all of our computers outĪnd use a pencil and paper for all of my data entry needs.Performs hard disk diagnostics, error detection and repairĪ diagnostic tool that tests and repairs hard disks.You can view hard disk self-diagnostic information, run diagnostic tests to check for disk defects, and erase a disk.If the test finds errors (bad sectors), you can use the repair option to return it to a defect-free state. scan that was included with a WD hdd utility and it gave me some results that, even after reading the help files, I don’t fully understand if I should be concerned or not.Ĭan someone please tell me if the following results are good for a brand new drive (2 days old)?Īre the Warranty: 1 items meaning they are bad and should be sent in for a hdd replacement if theĪny help would be great.

I’m beginning to think this drive was a bad idea and I can’t stand the idea of losing more data after what we just lost, which leads me to my next question. I REALLY need a reliable drive to start over on. We’ve already lost a ton of data and it’s taken me about 3 weeks to recover some of it using various PC recovering programs. (2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5' Internal Hard Drive) and it seems about 50% of the people buying them are having them either DOA or die within 3 months.

We just purchased a new Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS We have had 3 hdds die in the last 2 months! (1 Seagate 3.5' SATA, 1 WD 3.5' SATA, and a Samsung 2.5' SATA)

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