CrystalDiskInfo

I just checked 2 of my portable SSDs. Both of their TBW is 600. One is WD Blue SSD 3D and another one is Sandisk Ultra SSD 3D. The Crystal Disk Info shows me something very wrong. As you can see above, WD has written more than Sandisk, but the lifespan still 99% remains whereas Sandisk...

Hello. I have one question. In CrystalDiskInfo program on my portable SSD Crucial X8 4TB are given various parameters of this disk (I mean about S.M.A.R.T.), but not in percentage (%) only in RAW values. Can someone simply explain me how to properly read and interpret these various RAW values to...

3 seagates , all of them 160gb , one of them is pipeline seagate, i get knocks in it when delete a file or when access the drive or click a shortcut to that drive , so i read that it might have that advanced power management apm abled .so then came across reading about load/unload cycles , but i...

Hello, today I checked my event viewer and noticed it said this: Is this something to be concerned about as it seems to be spammed in the event viewer in places. The disk is a "SAMSUNG HD321KJ 320GB" and is my first hard drive I installed in my system. However there have been no data corruption...

I've been using this PC for three years almost, four now, and this HDD is mainly just used for games along my Unity and Blender projects. Also a few months ago I ran a virtual machine through Oracle VirtualBox VM, that might be the cause for the ridiculous amount of reallocated sectors but I...

Hi, So i had problems with my O.S drive, an M.2 NVMe SSD. I had to reinstall OS on a different drive, and was able to run a check of the disks. though the M2 is only showing in the Bios as "PCIe remapping" it shows in the crystalDiskInfo as you can see with 2 errors Can anyone tell me what...

Click to see the status of the HDD As the title mentions, with my Hard Disk primarily showing a 'Reallocated Sectors Count' caution, does Hard Disk stand any major risk, or can I safely ignore it? given that I have transferred almost all data to the cloud. Also, will formatting the drive be...

I have checked my external HDD using Crystaldiskinfo.After I copied some files to the HDD Reallocated sectores count increased to 3360 from 3352 in Raw Values sector.What does this means? Should I buy a new HDD? Here are the Screenshots Before copying files https://ibb.co/922cd5F After copying...

Hello everyone, I've bought an hdd some time ago to use it as storage only, and after a time it started to act strange (not letting windows boot if it was connected). Crystal disk info reported it on "caution" with c5 (current pending sector count) and c6 (uncorrectable sector count) in...

View: https://imgur.com/a/tvz5CTS hello there :) my understanding of these types of things are limited. so, try to explain things as simply as possible, if you can. around May 2021, i noticed my computer was unable to run video games like it always has. this was rather sudden, over the course...

I installed CrystalDiskInfo and I saw that my disk health is not good in my opinion. My SSD: View: https://imgur.com/GBulOQc My HDD: View: https://imgur.com/uck2leT How can I optimize this?

I am using a laptop with a 512 Gb SSD and a 1TB HDD. I was playing Trackmania that was installed on my HDD the other day and suddenly the Laptop Froze, Gave a Blue Screen of Death with DCP_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION error, the Hard drive started making a buzzing sound and it shut down. I restarted it...

Hey guys, I recently got a new harddrive so I decided to run crystal disk info on my other drives, never did so before so I was pretty curious to see the results although I'm not really sure how to interpret them. My old backup harddrive (first screenshot) is apparently in bad shape (bad health...

I recently felt my computer was running slow when accessing data on the hard drives and the data on the hard drives was getting slower to populate so I decided to run some health checks and ran CrystalDiskInfo to check my hard drives out. My primary data drive and secondary backup drive are...

Hello, I recently purchased a crucial MX500 500gb 2.5inch sata ssd new from amazon to increase my system storage. The drive seems to work fine, but when viewing the SMART status using Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics it shows a FAIL for ID B4(hex value) which has the attribute name...

How bad is the C5 and C6 value right now? Can i fix this in any way? CrystalDiskInfo_Screenshot C5 Current Pending Sector Count C6 Uncorrectable Sector count

Hi, I have been struggling to figure out why my external harddisk will not show up. someone suggested i try crystaldiskinfo to see if the harddisk is ok. the report says bad. But i am not able to understand what happened or why it is bad. Can someone please help me understand what this means...

So I bought this used Latitude D630 back in 2013 and have been using it as a backup PC ever since. I never bothered to change anything in it except doing a clean Win7 install. When I ran CrystalDiskInfo just now, it shows the HDD (I presume is stock) having run more than 420,000 hours! That's...

Hello I'm working on a budget freenas build using raid5 and was thinking about buying 3 or 4 used 3TB drives i've found online. But I'm unsure how to read CrystalDiskinfo and tell if a disk may be going bad.. Here is some screenshots the seller provides: View: https://imgur.com/a/BDZYdMX...

Hi, I have a HDD that are "Caution" on CrystalDiskInfo and I'm wondering if I should replace it right now. I'm not quite familiar with PC and tried to google its information, I would be very helpful if you tell how I should judge its condition and take action. There's something wrong with PC...

Good part of day you're in the middle of dear Tom's Hardware forum member or a reader passing by :p, I've just run into a weird situation... not sure if I should call it an "issue", still. I hooked up my daily driver external HDD which hasn't given me trouble since Feb 2014 (knock on wood) to a...

I was curious if my drives were running ok and one of my SSD's says its good in CrystalDiskInfo but it has bunch of these vendor specific attributes which has a blue dot behind them. I not sure if this good or bad but I wondering what does it mean? Here's a screenshot below. View...

Been having some slow downs, difficult restart times, and high disk usage spikes. After a crash ("Unexpected_Store_Exception") I decided to check on it with CrystalDiskInfo and here are my results: I'm a bit worried because I do not have a back up drive available. If it's failing like I fear...

So I've been having this issue that's shown in this video I'm linking here. I don't even know what to call this issue. I've read a bit about others having it, but no real solution. I decided to download CAM so that I could measure my PC Hardware while playing any games. I noticed that in every...

So recently my BenQ T2200HD started acting strange, when i turn my pc and it on, it would stay black, so i unplugged and plugged back in the hdmi cable, i saw a image for a split second then it went black, i kept doing that until the image stayed, i thought it was a hdmi issue, so i replaced...

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