Hard Disk Sentinel can give you an idea of the HD's general health, and an estimated remaining lifetime. Extend volume grayed out. Oct 25, 1. SvenBent , Oct 26, Started by ceejay7 Yesterday at 8: Yes, my password is: Your ChrystalDiskInfo log seems to indicate a Rotation Rate is not avilable and that may be due to low speed rotation probably caused by internal friction. 
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Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts Billboard Trophies. No, as I wc20ears in my OP, I downloaded Western Digital's own diagnostics tool and ran the extended test which didn't show any problem.
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You must log in or register to reply here. It's definitely the disk, other disks in the same PC has no such problem, and the disk displayed same problem in other PC's.
Even if it marks half of the disks sectors as bad it'd still have a cool TB usable space. Apr 20, 7 0 wd20rars, 1. Oct 26, 6.
I know I could just go ahead and do it, but frankly the drive kinda works at this time, except for the very slow writes, so Wd0ears don't want to waste another 24 hours running a LLF if it just comes up blank again like the extended test. Oct 27, 8.
Anyone know if there's firmware updates for WD20EARX drives?
I've had plenty of disks die on me, but usually they just "click" if wd20eras, never heard the "beep" before. Question extend non-adjacent partitions? Help us by reporting it.
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Yes, my password is: TJ Hooker 3 minutes ago. Oct 26, 5. Hard Disk Sentinel can give you an idea of the HD's general health, and an estimated remaining lifetime. If chkdsk finds a good amount of bad sectors, check other factors such as: Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except for one My Book or My Passport.
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The question is, can I extend the life of the drive in any significant way, say a year or so, by a low level format? Smartctl shows errors for various sector counts as shown below. I was hoping it was possible to run a low-level format that would mark all the bad sectors on the disk so it doesn't have to stop all the time, when it finds out they are bad.
Sorry I jumped the gun earlier and marked the wrong answer best solution, obviously this one is, but I can't seem to change it now.
An available USB port on your computer is required. Avoids confusion if someone else in the future migh reuse the answer. Apr 20, 6 0 4, 0. I picked up a set of 2 TB WD Green drives wd20earxpasb0 recently from a local liquidator - they were manufactured in and all have fimware hours total use time, so I want to wx20ears them for data storage. Search Everywhere Threads This forum This thread.
Before updating the firmware on your drive, make sure you have a copy of all the data on your drive stored on a separate device. Oct 26, 3. Your name or email address: If the drive displayed is the correct drive, click "Update Firmware.
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