Question 4 Year Old External Seagate ST3000DM003 Drive Used For XBOX One X

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Hello, my name is Atif.

I would appreciate some advice and tips for my problem. I am using this drive for playing games on my XBOX One X.

I have a 4 year old Seagate drive with the model number posted on the title, I was playing a game when suddenly it starting to make some humming noises. It did this a few months ago as well, this time I took it out of the enclosure, and looked at Crystal Disk Info, which said it's still good, with 1,105 days and 9 hours power on (3 years, will be 4 in Jan). I then used two other programs Victoria HDD and HDD Scan and suddenly bad blocks (red blocks) starting showing up, then what followed was that I lost my 3TB capacity and it went down to 746GB. I formatted it a few times and to my surprise the bad blocks disappeared but my capacity hasn't returned, to 3TB and earlier today Windows was having trouble formatting the drive, some of the drive sectors are taking >500MS to access the drive. I am sorry I don't have the proof, it happened late last night, and some things happened today. Should I still trust this HDD, and will the bad blocks reappear?

Everything is reported to be good at the moment, after all that but is it really?

Thank you for your help.
 
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atif93 said:
Okay thank you for your very simple answer, how much damage have I suffered, and will I ever be able to get my 3TB capacity back?
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Not sure what you ask for. Short answer is that the HDD is unusable and you should not use it any more.

If you had some important data on it, now is the time to get the backup. If not, any data you had stored on that drive must be considered lost.
 
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USAFRet said:
It is dead.

Drives die. All of them, eventually.
This one has met its maker.

Bad sectors are literal spaces on the platter that are damaged. They don't get better, only worse.
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Crystal Disk Info does not show reallocation of sectors yet or anything, so will it deteriorate even more quickly now that all this has happened to me?
 
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USAFRet said:
It is dead.

Drives die. All of them, eventually.
This one has met its maker.

Bad sectors are literal spaces on the platter that are damaged. They don't get better, only worse.
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Hi, can you please help me with what this picture means, for my external hard drive, I purchased Hard Disk Sentinel today?

file:///C:/Users/atifi/Downloads/Capture.JPG
 
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USAFRet said:
Oh.
Well, that is probably normal. I expect some of the normal 931GB space is occupied by the xbox system.
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No, sorry for the confusion. I installed HD Sentinel today, and it shows my hard drive health with a green tick, I ran some programs, and this HDD is having some bad block issues.
 
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atif93 said:
No, sorry for the confusion. I installed HD Sentinel today, and it shows my hard drive health with a green tick, I ran some programs, and this HDD is having some bad block issues.
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Bottom line - All drives are dying, from the first moment you power them up.
Death may be years away, may be weeks. It may be a slow lingering death, it may be instant.

If other tools are showing points of fail, but this particular tool shows "all is good"...which do you believe?
Of course you want to believe that all is good.
And then, when it dies completely next week....🙁
 
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USAFRet said:
Bottom line - All drives are dying, from the first moment you power them up.
Death may be years away, may be weeks. It may be a slow lingering death, it may be instant.

If other tools are showing points of fail, but this particular tool shows "all is good"...which do you believe?
Of course you want to believe that all is good.
And then, when it dies completely next week....🙁
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So it’s best not to trust this drive with important data too then? That’s worrying one Drive has lasted two years, the other four, that’s such a short time to store data reliably.
 
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atif93 said:
So it’s best not to trust this drive with important data too then? That’s worrying one Drive has lasted two years, the other four, that’s such a short time to store data reliably.
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I have HDDs that are working 20 years later.
I've had HDDs die at 5 weeks old.

Never ever entrust your data to a single physical drive. No matter how new or old, or whatever some software reports as "health".
 
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USAFRet said:
I have HDDs that are working 20 years later.
I've had HDDs die at 5 weeks old.

Never ever entrust your data to a single physical drive. No matter how new or old, or whatever some software reports as "health".
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Ah good point thank you, I am going for your recommended 8TB Seagate EHDD for my Xbox, any tips on how frequently I should monitor the health this time.
 
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