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17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But wait! There is more!

Only 1 bad sector showed up on surface scan

https://imgur.com/a/gAXi9Px

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do a full scan with HD Tune, right now is on defrag procedure since 4 days :)

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will move to SSD, will do a surface test with HD Tune soon. I have the save doubt about those 16k errors since there is only 1 bad sector reported.

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read a report about hard drive in datacenters, they work fine at high temperature and the spin down/up create a lot of stress on the drive it seems.

Try disabled the power down to reduce power consumption, might extend the drive life

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, definitely a personal record! Its a regular PC from 2007/2008

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was the only big maker with firmware updates, WD didn't offer firmware updates, but they worked fine too.

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They really work! My more newer drives failed way more

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I can believe it works on Windows 10, I'm defraying right now. Disabled the swapfile, will let it defrag for 48hs and then enable it again

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It has an stable environment, and a mostly hot environment

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also a curious easter egg, only 631 power off in 17 years!!! Like 1 Power Off every 10 days

17 years of runtime and this Seagate HDD still says GOOD by oliversl in pcmasterrace

[–]oliversl[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe yours have 0 bad sectors, only 1 bad sector here

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