How would you rate the health of this HDD?

[otinane]

I am adding that the disk is under daily use for 6 years, and has been formatted 7 times total.

Model Seagate ST500DM002 500GB

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I am adding that the disk is under daily use for 6 years, and has been formatted 7 times total.

Model Seagate ST500DM002 500GB

If i'm reading those numbers right, it looks like read and seek error rates are through the roof. If that is the case, I'd probably decommission it.

 

[Elixer]

Actually, that is normal for lots of Seagate drives.
Going my age alone, I would start looking for a new one, or at the very least, make backups more frequently.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Looks perfectly fine. Expect it to fail tomorrow, just like you should with any drive, new or old.

 

[crashtech]

It's a Seagate, so gift it to someone you don't really care for.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It's a Seagate, so gift it to someone you don't really care for.

LOL.

Anyways, OP, any issues with the drive? Or just feeling like getting a new one? Still looks like it's in good health to me.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

It's a Seagate, so gift it to someone you don't really care for.

I thought Seagates have been performing a lot better recently. I'm basing this off of Backblaze's hard drive reliability data, but it seems brands like WD and their Red drives are struggling far more in terms of reliability.

 

[crashtech]

I thought Seagates have been performing a lot better recently. I'm basing this off of Backblaze's hard drive reliability data, but it seems brands like WD and their Red drives are struggling far more in terms of reliability.

I'm sure their data is better than mine, but anecdotally, my experience with many hundreds of repairs over the years is that I've replaced failing Seagate drives more than any other, it's not even close. Part of that is because they are the most common, but for me, it's just not worth the trouble. Any time a spinner is specified, I choose HGST now, I've only seen a handful those fail, and they seem to do so gradually rather than catastrophically. YMMV!

 

[Rifter]

Well for comparison i just broke a RAID 0 array that had 2, 2TB WD blacks in it this weekend when i built my ryzen box, as one of those 2TB blacks got reused in it for media storage.

The array was running for last 6 years as storage for my steam games collection and both drives had similar power on hours, and power cycle count to your drive. They both had fewer than 3 read or seek errors each, and zero reallocated sectors. So they are in great health.

Id say your drive is on its way out the door.

 

[otinane]

The most controversial responses ever! I wasn't really paying attention to my HDD's status until recently.

I was hearing some "noise". Can't remember if it was during boot or not. Then it came to me: so many formats, so many years...

Well i saved in a flash drive the most critical files i need (around 8GB), and since my system is too old (mobo is on SATA2, and USB2.0...) i don't see any point to throw away money.

I'll wait for AMD's APU to come out, and make a full upgrade.

Until then, let's see how long this baby can last.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You decided to backup 8 GB of "critical" files only when you began hearing noises from your six year old hard drive?

Classic.

 

[PliotronX]

0 pending and 0 reallocated sectors. You could run diskfresh through it to see if it provokes pending sectors but it looks fine to me. Disk read error rate is a combination of an equation with hex values that are not read correctly by most (read: all) tools because seagate has not officially divulged info about it, keeping everyone guessing.

Does it perform consistently? Any random slowdowns?

 

[futurefields]

Sorry for the noob question but what software is that? Id like to test my 3tb WD Black which is quite noisy

 

[PliotronX]

Sorry for the noob question but what software is that? Id like to test my 3tb WD Black which is quite noisy

Check out gsmartcontrol (apt-get or yum depending on distro) or crystaldiskinfo for windows. Is the noise any sort of clicking or is it a hum like a fish tank pump?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I thought Seagates have been performing a lot better recently. I'm basing this off of Backblaze's hard drive reliability data, but it seems brands like WD and their Red drives are struggling far more in terms of reliability.

Yes, except the 4TB and 8TB models, although the 8TB is cheating since it is basically a 5400rpm Hitachi Ultrastar He8.

OP : Your disk is perfectly healthy. Big flags to look for are (raw values!) Realloc count, Current pending count, Realloc event count, UltraDMA CRCs.
If they're non-zero, I trash / retire / eBay the drives (with full disclosure), except for UltraDMA CRCs, which can be caused by a bad host controller / cable.

 

[otinane]

OP : Your disk is perfectly healthy. Big flags to look for are (raw values!) Realloc count, Current pending count, Realloc event count, UltraDMA CRCs.
If they're non-zero, I trash / retire / eBay the drives (with full disclosure), except for UltraDMA CRCs, which can be caused by a bad host controller / cable.

Thanks for the input. I will keep the disc till it won't boot. All critical files are backed up into 2x USB flash drives.