Hey everyone! Just got Stablebit DrivePool and DriveScanner a couple of weeks ago.
I have a 1.5 year old Seagate 3TB external drive and, when I purchased DrivePool, I added a new 5TB external model.
It's the 3TB drive I'm worried about. Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
DriveScanner indicates 4680 Reallocated sectors. It's careful to remind me that the drive is not showing indications of imminent failure. I've been choosing the "Ignore once" or "Ignore this time only" error (I forget what it's called, forgive me.). And, I'd say 2 or 3 times a day, I get the warning again, as the count has increased.
Another thing that kind of worries me is I hear a strange chatter every few minutes out of it--this chatter, to me, sounds exactly like that initialization sound you often hear immediately after a HDD spins up when you first power it on. Except the drive never disappears from windows, I never hear the windows hardware removal or reattachment sound I would expect to hear if it was *actually* powering off and on. SMART reports 120 different power cycles (this number is not growing but seems high since I can only thing of 10 or 20 times in the last year when it's been unplugged) and 0 spin retries.
It seems to be still working just fine, but I'm worried--I manage the IT help desk at a small college and in the past month, we've had users bring in not one but TWO seagate 3TB drives that have failed them. Additionally the latest BackBlaze Report showed a spike in failures from the Seagate 3TB drive, so I think I may be doomed.
I'm leaning toward buying a replacement and taking this 3TB out of the pool: would you folks agree, or recommend a different course of action? I'm all ears.
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matthew.austin
Hey everyone! Just got Stablebit DrivePool and DriveScanner a couple of weeks ago.
I have a 1.5 year old Seagate 3TB external drive and, when I purchased DrivePool, I added a new 5TB external model.
It's the 3TB drive I'm worried about. Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166
DriveScanner indicates 4680 Reallocated sectors. It's careful to remind me that the drive is not showing indications of imminent failure. I've been choosing the "Ignore once" or "Ignore this time only" error (I forget what it's called, forgive me.). And, I'd say 2 or 3 times a day, I get the warning again, as the count has increased.
Another thing that kind of worries me is I hear a strange chatter every few minutes out of it--this chatter, to me, sounds exactly like that initialization sound you often hear immediately after a HDD spins up when you first power it on. Except the drive never disappears from windows, I never hear the windows hardware removal or reattachment sound I would expect to hear if it was *actually* powering off and on. SMART reports 120 different power cycles (this number is not growing but seems high since I can only thing of 10 or 20 times in the last year when it's been unplugged) and 0 spin retries.
It seems to be still working just fine, but I'm worried--I manage the IT help desk at a small college and in the past month, we've had users bring in not one but TWO seagate 3TB drives that have failed them. Additionally the latest BackBlaze Report showed a spike in failures from the Seagate 3TB drive, so I think I may be doomed.
I'm leaning toward buying a replacement and taking this 3TB out of the pool: would you folks agree, or recommend a different course of action? I'm all ears.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and input!
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