Harddrive with bad S.M.A.R.T status

[AfterFX2]

I know a bit about other stuff but I'm an absolute noob on storages.

I found this harddrive lying around and I need some more space. My question is, can I use this harddrive for other stuff (recording videos and such) rather than important backups without a problem? Thanks.

 

[drtweak]

I would not trust that drive. Either use a program to wipe it if anything valuabe on there or dill some holes though it. It is now a paper weight.

 

[DeadRam]

I wouldn't use it. Any data is important and that drive is failing.

 

[AfterFX2]

The only reason that I want use this is to record videos, they take a lot of space. I'll encode them later and move them to my main drive. Not even that?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Sorry, that drive is useless. Discard it.
See - Relocated sectors count? 42877! That's a huge number. All spare area of the drive has been used up.
It's full with bad blocks.

 

[AfterFX2]

Sooo, *a bunch of zeroes*A77D means 42877? I told you I didn't know anything.

 

[SkyNetRising]

A77D is in hex, convert it to decimal and you'll get 42877.

 

[AfterFX2]

I heard some stuff like that somewhere before. Just wasn't sure. Still, can't I use it for temporary storing? The files won't be important. It seems fine for now, I copied some stuff in it and they work fine.

 

[SkyNetRising]

You can use it as temp storage, but be ready that everything, you put in there, may (and probably will) get corrupted.

 

[AfterFX2]

Good enough for me. As I said, I'll be compressing the recordings, then move them to my main drive most of the time. Thanks mate.

 

[gallowglass1976]

You do realize that compressed data is even MORE susceptible to corruption.... This is NOT a good idea. Unless the ultimate quality of the video in question isn't important... Also realize that the drive will most likely run exceptionally slow. You are most likely setting yourself up for some massive frustration.

 

[AfterFX2]

You do realize that compressed data is even MORE susceptible to corruption.... This is NOT a good idea. Unless the ultimate quality of the video in question isn't importance... Also realize that the drive will most likely run exceptionally slow. You are most likely setting yourself up for some massive frustration.

One, videos aren't that important. My other harddrives head broke. I lost 7 hours of footage but it doesn't matter much. Two, I don't want to have 120GB/an hour videos in my main drive, which is 500GB and only 130GB of free space.

For the record: I recorded for 30 minutes, compressed it, then moved it to the main drive. Conclusion, it works fine. No corruption. It might be a wrong info. Over 42k reallocated sector?