hard drive health

I have a HDD that might be 8 years old from a Windows 7 computer (I'm on Windows 10 version 1909 now). I don't actually want to store things on it or do a backup but rather have it readily accessible if I want to pull an old file from it once a month. It has very little that I actually care...

I've been testing a refurbished 3TB HDD I bought to run in mirror, with an identical drive I already have, in a NAS (Using FreeNAS). Using HDDScan because I've been told that smart information can be erased. I've been running butterfly test for 21 hours, at time of writing this, and it's still...

Hello everybody, i recently bought a brand new asus gaming laptop a TUF fx505gm and it works very well and all but after some time i noticed some programs like HD sentinel are telling me the hard drive is in horrible health and could die within weeks but this makes no sense to me because this...