dominator99 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 I've been having problems with Stable Scanner reporting bad sectors on a spinner HDD that other scanners do not detect like Seagate Seatools, CrystalDiskInfo & HDD regenerator. Any suggestion why this is so? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Shane Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Based on my experiences, the difference may be that Stablebit Scanner continually monitors SMART in (close to) real-time whereas the ones you've mentioned only check when they're run, and hard drives have both an ability to repair bad sectors (somewhat) and a reserve of spare sectors that they can use to replace the bad sectors if they can't manage a repair. Generally the timeline goes something like this: HDD gets a bad a sectors -> HDD detects the bad sector, lists it in its SMART table -> Stablebit Scanner sees the SMART table change, alerts user -> HDD manages to repair it (or "repair" it), removes the problem from its SMART table -> "How come Scanner reported a bad sector but I can't find anything now?" The rare temporary bad sector does happen (that's why all modern drives have a reserve). However if one of your drives starts having it happen more often then that's probably an early hint that it's time to retire that drive from doing anything important. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 dominator99 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 Thanks for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Question
dominator99
I've been having problems with Stable Scanner reporting bad sectors on a spinner HDD that other scanners do not detect like Seagate Seatools, CrystalDiskInfo & HDD regenerator. Any suggestion why this is so?
Link to comment
Share on other sites
2 answers to this question
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.