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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USAFRet said:
You should replace it when it dies.
That my be next year, or the next 5 minutes.

A full drive backup image will allow you to recover completely.

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...
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If anyone is an expert in HDD Sentinel, could you please inform me what this sign means that's displayed on my C: Drive?

https://imgur.com/uUWIsr8
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Kind Regards
 
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In two weeks time, I think I’ll order a Toshiba X300 hard drive just in case, my hard drives have always lasted me three years, don’t want to take any risks, is that a good idea?
 
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You were very correct when you said results can change in 5 minutes, I got the bad sector (red block) near the end of the test, I got worried, I think it’a demise is probably soon to be honest, I had it since 2018.
 
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Certainly the orange sectors are increasing, I thought that the red block was a joke until I saw it for a second time, however all the HDD utilities are saying it's fine for now?
 
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atif93 said:
Certainly the orange sectors are increasing, I thought that the red block was a joke until I saw it for a second time, however all the HDD utilities are saying it's fine for now?
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You're misreading that number of orange sectors.

That needs to be measured over time.
During the one test, yes, the number goes "up" as it encounters different sectors.

If you test next week, and those slow sectors are more than today....then it is getting worse.

But, continued testing may make it fail faster.
 
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Okay then, I think I am getting ready soon to order a Toshiba HDD, I already have data backed up to two places and my NAS is on, I value my data quite a bit so I will take my chance with this HDD, sooner or later someday it will say Reallocated Sector count, if it continues like this.
 
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Is the WD Blue I have from 2018 (1TB) the one currently failing good for gaming? I have heard people say, that's just for general office work and light usage, it's not designed for heavy gaming?
 
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Hello Tom's Hardware,

I am now having issues playing some videos, that I recorded earlier today of myself gaming. The HDD is stuttering and video are partially freezing?

Any advice please?

Kind Regards.
 
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