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ok weird one i opened CrystalDiskInfo out of curiosity and got this for my laptop SSD: Uncorrectable Sector Count is flagged. The drive seems to work fine: files open, no strange noises. But now i cant stop thinking about it. How serious is this?? Do i have…
ugh. one of the hard drives in my desktop (used for media and backups) has started making occasional clicking sounds, and copying large files sometimes stalls for a second. A SMART tool reports the overall health as…
Got this today: The NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning I've ever seen. Percentage Used went from zero to a small number. Should I replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? I've read conflicting…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose teh renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. after two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz a friend told me to. The Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully…
got this today: The laptop SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. Media and Data Integrity Errors went from zero to a small number. Should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? Ive…
hmmmm ok got this today: the NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning i've ever seen. reallocated Sectors went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? 🤦 i've…
My BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, the health tool shows: That's my 4 TB hard drive. Percentage Used is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and teh only other copy is a cloud…
Confession: I chose the renewed 512GB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Percentage Used line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now wondering what exactly…
I got clever and bought a refurbished 1TB NVMe instead of a new one. Felt great for two weeks. Then I installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. The Available Spare value is flagged and the status says Caution instead of Good.…
long time lurker first post lol confession: I chose the marketplace 1TB SATA SSD to save money for a betetr GPU. After two weeks I ran a SMART check cuz a friend told me to. the Wear Leveling Count line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
im literally losing my mind here leanred something cool today: SSDs count how much data has been written to them over their lifetime 😅 in teh SMART data theres "Total Host Writes" or "Data Units Written" for NVMe. compare it to the TBW rating in the spec…
ok weird one my BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, teh health tool shows: Thats my external backup drive. Media and Data Integrity Errors is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and…
Confession: I chose the open box 2TB NVMe to save money for a better GPU. After ten days I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. The Media and Data Integrity Errors line is yellow. The seller says refurbished drives are fully tested. I am now…
guys pls help got this today: the old boot SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. uncorrectable Sector Count went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts confession: I chose the used 2TB SATA SSD to save money for a better GPU. After a month I ran a SMART check because a friend told me to. the Percentage Used line is yellow. the seller says refurbished drives are fully…
guys pls help my dad always said buy cheap, buy twice 👍 I did not listen. Just three weeks after buying a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD, my health tool shows a warning. I have backups of teh important stuff, mostly 🤦 what I need to know is how fast this kind of…
i got clever and bouhgt a marketplace 1TB SATA SSD insetad of a new one xD felt great for a month... then i installed a health tool out of curiosity and it greeted me with this. the Media and Data Integrity Errors value is flagged and the status says Caution…
