HDD health status

[Koentro]

Hello, guys.

I checked my HDD health status today through Crystal Disk. It says that my SSD (Samsung EVO 850 250GB) is 100% healthy and says only ''healthy'' for my HDD (Seagate Green 2TB). My HDD has got 2 partitions.

So, should I worry? The reason for the check up is that I keep hearing a "trric" noise coming from somewhere there in my case, it's a nosie similar to an object getting sometimes hit by a fan, but this happens after gaming, when files are somehow being saved or so, and during games in some random parts. Normal use is fine here as I type this message and during the check up on Crystal Disk: absolutely no noise. Temperatures are always around 35c, it's hot where I live. So, any ideas? Thank you in advance.

CPU: i7 4790 + TX3 EVO + Gelid GC Extreme
Motherboard: z97 M-PLUS Asus
GPU: GTX 1070 - Galax Sniper White EXOC 8GB
RAM: 2x8GB 1866 Mhz Hyper X
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
SSD: Samsung EVO 850 250GB
PSU: Corsair CS 650M
Case: Corsair 780T
Mouse: Logitech g502
Keyboard: Corsair Raptor K40
Monitor: BenQ RL2755

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

Wear and tear on traditional hard drives is unavoidable since they have moving parts and they are going to wear over time as sure as night follows day.


As long as you keep your data backed up elsewhere there is no need to worry, you just replace the drive when it starts misbehaving frequently, then restore your data from the backups. Please don't ignore the importance of data backups.

 

[Koentro]

Wear and tear on traditional hard drives is unavoidable since they have moving parts and they are going to wear over time as sure as night follows day.


As long as you keep your data backed up elsewhere there is no need to worry, you just replace the drive when it starts misbehaving frequently, then restore your data from the backups. Please don't ignore the importance of data backups.

Hi, Phillip, thanks for your reply.

Regarding health status, should is also say 100% healthy as it indicates for my SSD? What about the occasional noise? Should I ignore it?

 

[seagate_surfer]

Koentro, use Seatools testing software for your Seagate drive. If there is a problem it will let you know. Use the long extended test for best results.

 

[enforcerdestroyer]

You will likely be fine, but you should still run Seatools just in case. The noises are, of course, not normal, and I don't exactly have experience in dealing with those, so I can't help with that.

 

[Koentro]

Koentro, use Seatools testing software for your Seagate drive. If there is a problem it will let you know. Use the long extended test for best results.

SeaTools for Windows is the one I should get?

 

[seagate_surfer]

Koentro, use Seatools testing software for your Seagate drive. If there is a problem it will let you know. Use the long extended test for best results.

SeaTools for Windows is the one I should get?

Either one but for Windows will work fine.

 

[Koentro]

So, I executed all the procedures but the repairing, long test and advanced one. All the others gave me positive feedback and there was no noise during the tests. The noise I hear only shows up after closing a game.

Apparently, the HDD is behaving normally. Thank you very much!

I have one more doubt: I noticed FPS in Ghost Recon Wildlans, Final Fantasy 15 and Assassin's Creed Origin is dropping at times for some reason. I installed new drivers for GPU, ran a Cinebench test (my cpu is scoring as much as in January, when it was newly installed), same with TimeSpy. Temps are really ok too (70ºc for both). Then I noticed HDD usage spikes to 100% when FPS drops happen. This spike drags the GPU usage down as well, kinda of at the same time. Does anyone have an idea on how I could solve that?