Question Can some one help me check the information, is my hard drive safe?

[pikapika1998]

thanks for you read this post , i'm not good at computer, i just bought a hard drive and it seems new, but i don't know the numbers below, can someone help me check if the drive is safe? thanks

 

[USAFRet]

I see zero wrong with that.
Presumably a brand new drive?

Are you keeping a known good backup of the data on this drive?

I've personally had a drive go from fine to dead dead dead in about 2 days.

 

[pikapika1998]

I see zero wrong with that.
Presumably a brand new drive?

Are you keeping a known good backup of the data on this drive?

I've personally had a drive go from fine to dead dead dead in about 2 days.

i have a 2.5 2t drive from my laptop for backup

sir, i beg to ask you one more question

I see the system says this hard drive is 5700 rpm, while on the website it says 5400 rpm, so is this fine ?

 

[USAFRet]

5400-5700 RPM is kinda nebulous.

It is fine.

 

[pikapika1998]

5400-5700 RPM is kinda nebulous.

It is fine.

thank you for your time , good day to you

 

[JeffreyP55]

thanks for you read this post , i'm not good at computer, i just bought a hard drive and it seems new, but i don't know the numbers below, can someone help me check if the drive is safe? thanks

I had a brand new Samsung 990x less than a week old, die. A victim of infant mortality.

 

[hakaru_eitara]

Maybe this link is useful:

SMART Attributes For Predicting HDD Failure - Horizon

HDDs are able to capture data about their own performance. These "SMART attributes" can then be used to predict and manage hard drive failure.

horizontechnology.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4rh6st/til_the_5_most_important_smart_stats_are/

https://help.argusmonitor.com/SMARTattributes.html

 

[fzabkar]

For a while, WD obfuscated the actual RPM by referring to their drives as "5400 RPM class" or "7200 RPM class".

 

[evermorex76]

The RPM rating in DiskInfo is reported by the firmware, not something that is "detected" by the software directly. WD's "IntelliPower" was claimed to be variable speed drives so they could slow down when high speed wouldn't help performance, thus saving power and reducing noise, but it turned out they weren't doing that and were just slower drives.

Not directly related to OP's question, but, WD has a history of reporting RPMs which are demonstrably not what the drive is actually spinning at, including with the Red drives. The result is drives that use WAY more power and produce more noise than one would expect for the RPM rating. They seem to have simply artificially limited the performance (throughput/access time) via firmware in order to use the same hardware in different "classes" so they didn't need multiple factory lines, just making the controller not transfer data as quickly as the platters and heads could actually handle it.

Western Digital is trying to redefine the word “RPM”

Well those measurements of rotational speed are just, like, your opinion, man…

arstechnica.com

The specs for this series of Red drive do at least make it look like the drives really are running at around 5400RPM, based on the power consumption being 53% of what the 7200RPM models use while active, while delivering 69% of the throughput at 75% of the speed. They don't claim they're in a "class" but perhaps they do ramp up to 5700RPM in reality, which ought to equate to even higher throughput so maybe they're still playing games with the term "RPM" and artificially limiting it. (The next two higher-capacity models actually run at a weird 5640RPM according to the spec sheet, which could get reported as 5700RPM, so I'd bet they're just using the same hardware and the lower models are artificially limited again.)