Not worth it for me to pay a technician. I'm piss poor. I just want to try to rehabilitate this drive if at all possible. In my current situation it's not worth it to me to spend more than 10-20 bucks on it, if even that.
If I had the money to fix it, I would buy a new one instead. Or not... It's not like I need it. I just want to fix it as best as possible to do whatever with it. If not, then it goes into the trash.
As I said theres no data at all in it. It's just acting weird, as I tried to describe reporting the weird stuff that's going on.
Any suggestions on how to rely the necessary SMART report? Is any particular tool preferrable?
I normally use CrystalDiskInfo to check SMART from Windows.
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Model : ST31000524AS
Firmware : JC45
Serial Number : 5VP7S42J
Disk Size : 1000.2 GB (8.4/137.4/1000.2/1000.2)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 1953525168
Rotation Rate : 7200 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ATA8-ACS
Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 4
Transfer Mode : SATA/300 | SATA/600
Power On Hours : 64309 hours
Power On Count : 3156 count
Temperature : 28 C (82 F)
Health Status : Caution
Features : S.M.A.R.T., AAM, NCQ
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : D000h [OFF]
Drive Letter :
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 118 _93 __6 00000B61B9AD Read Error Rate
03 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin-Up Time
04 _95 _95 _20 0000000015EF Start/Stop Count
05 _85 _85 _36 000000000283 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 _78 _60 _30 000209213222 Seek Error Rate
09 _27 _27 __0 00000000FB35 Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _97 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0C _97 _97 _20 000000000C54 Power Cycle Count
B7 _98 _98 __0 000000000002 Vendor Specific
B8 100 100 _99 000000000000 End-to-End Error
BB __1 __1 __0 000000000283 Reported Uncorrectable Errors
BC 100 _56 __0 005A066009F2 Command Timeout
BD 100 100 __0 000000000000 High Fly Writes
BE _72 _52 _45 00001C1A001C Airflow Temperature
C2 _28 _48 __0 00090000001C Temperature
C3 _35 _17 __0 00000B61B9AD Hardware ECC recovered
C5 100 __8 __0 000000000027 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 __8 __0 000000000027 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
F0 100 253 __0 4C2700011683 Head Flying Hours
F1 100 253 __0 00004274598A Total Host Writes
F2 100 253 __0 000089D814AD Total Host Reads
-- IDENTIFY_DEVICE ---------------------------------------------------------
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
000: 0C5A 3FFF C837 0010 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 0000 .Z?..7.......?......
010: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 3556 5037 5334 324A 5VP7S42J
020: 0000 0000 0004 4A43 3435 2020 2020 5354 3331 3030 ......JC45 ST3100
030: 3035 3234 4153 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0524AS
040: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010 0000 2F00 ..../.
050: 4000 0200 0200 0007 3FFF 0010 003F FC10 00FB 0010 @.......?....?......
060: FFFF 0FFF 0000 0407 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000 ...........x.x.x.x..
070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 001F 050E 0004 0048 0040 .................H.@
080: 01F0 0029 346B 7F01 4163 3469 BC01 4163 007F 0055 ...)4k..Ac4i..Ac...U
090: 0055 0000 FFFE 0000 D000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .U..................
100: 6DB0 7470 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 5000 C500 m.tp............P...
110: 2F77 A650 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 401E /w.P..............@.
120: 401C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0029 6DB0 @................)m.
130: 7470 6DB0 7470 2020 0002 0140 0100 5000 3C06 3C0A tpm.tp ...@..P.<.<.
140: 0000 003C 0000 0008 0000 0000 004F 0280 0000 0000 ...<.........O......
150: 0008 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 3F00 9800 ................?...
160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 103F 0000 0000 0000 .............?......
210: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1C20 0000 0000 ............... ....
220: 0000 0000 1010 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
230: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ....................
250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 47A5 ..........G.
-- SMART_READ_DATA ---------------------------------------------------------
+0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 0A 00 01 0F 00 76 5D AD B9 61 0B 00 00 00 03 03 .....v]..a......
010: 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 32 00 5F 5F EF .dd........2.__.
020: 15 00 00 00 00 00 05 33 00 55 55 83 02 00 00 00 .......3.UU.....
030: 00 00 07 0F 00 4E 3C 22 32 21 09 02 00 00 09 32 .....N<"2!.....2
040: 00 1B 1B 35 FB 00 00 00 00 00 0A 13 00 64 64 00 ...5.........dd.
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 32 00 61 61 54 0C 00 00 00 .......2.aaT....
060: 00 00 B7 32 00 62 62 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 B8 32 ...2.bb........2
070: 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BB 32 00 01 01 83 .dd........2....
080: 02 00 00 00 00 00 BC 32 00 64 38 F2 09 60 06 5A .......2.d8..`.Z
090: 00 00 BD 3A 00 64 64 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BE 22 ...:.dd........"
0A0: 00 48 34 1C 00 1A 1C 00 00 00 C2 22 00 1C 30 1C .H4........"..0.
0B0: 00 00 00 09 00 00 C3 1A 00 23 11 AD B9 61 0B 00 .........#...a..
0C0: 00 00 C5 12 00 64 08 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 10 .....d.'........
0D0: 00 64 08 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 3E 00 C8 C8 00 .d.'.......>....
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 00 00 64 FD 83 16 01 00 27 .........d.....'
0F0: 4C 0F F1 00 00 64 FD 8A 59 74 42 00 00 00 F2 00 L....d..YtB.....
100: 00 64 FD AD 14 D8 89 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .d..............
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 82 00 58 02 00 7B ............X..{
170: 03 00 01 00 01 B1 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 FE 79 16 41 99 D2 00 00 .........y.A....
1B0: 00 00 00 00 01 00 06 7E 8A 59 74 42 68 19 05 00 .......~.YtBh...
1C0: AD 14 D8 89 9B 5C 1C 00 00 00 00 00 4C 89 34 0D .....\......L.4.
1D0: 00 00 00 FF 00 00 00 00 42 20 00 00 2E 00 0B 00 ........B ......
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 ...............%
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1C ................
-- SMART_READ_THRESHOLD ----------------------------------------------------
+0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 01 00 01 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 ................
010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 14 00 00 00 00 ................
020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 24 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .......$........
030: 00 00 07 1E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 00 ................
040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 61 00 00 00 00 ...........a....
050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 0C 14 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
060: 00 00 B7 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 B8 63 ...............c
070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BB 00 00 00 00 00 ................
080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 BC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
090: 00 00 BD 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 BE 2D ...............-
0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C2 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 C3 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0C0: 00 00 C5 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C6 00 ................
0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 C7 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 F0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0F0: 00 00 F1 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 F2 00 ................
100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 60 ...............`
The aforementioned pass of Victoria's DDD write procedure is still running (75% done now). The checking process seems to have a somewhat regular pattern of very slow and troublesome stretches where I get lots of high latency checks, and then breaks free for a little while at full speed, unimpeded for about minute or two (equivalent to about 5-10GB), and then back to screechy slowness.
When I started CrystalDiskInfo to get that SMART data, the checking in Victoria was in one of the smooth runs. The moment I clicked the tab for this disk on the CDI window to obtain the report, I heard the disk screeching again and sure enough Victoria's checking was back to rainbow-colored block indicating high latency checks.
I don't know what you take from that. I interpret that nudging the disk for smart data disturbed the delicate equilibrium of internal conflicting threads that allowed Victoria to run smooth, and allowed the rogue thread of whatever-it-is-trying to do, to kick impose itself over. I don't know, sounds kind of reasonable to me.
And yes, a couple of days ago when I was testing things with HDAT 2, I did attempt a SMART full surface self-test and, sure enough, it failed. But since removing the time limitation in Victoria results in that sectors eventually pass, even if it takes forever, and that the screeching seeks seem to kick in somewhat randomly, and also un response to other concurrent requests, it does sound to me that, perhaps, the disk surface is not nearly as bad as all the screeching suggests, and it is really a sofware/config problem, as I suspect.
As I said previously, once this pass is done, I intend to recheck some parts of the disk with the same procedure, but trying to select the in a way that maximizes the chances that the timing of these rough and smooth runs, that I believe are caused by this conflict of internal processes, lands a bad run on sectors that ran smoothly in the current pass, and viceversa.
That's the result I expect. At which point, I don't think there'll be place to belive there's any validity to these sectors being actually damaged.