Question Is my external drive ok?

[Zion_Mtrx]

I have one Seagate external HDD which I use for backup. When I connect it and check SMART I got this:

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- Why does Seagate HDD have so different illogical SMART readings than other brands?

- Is it ok to just transfer large amout of files all at once from PC to external drive? I am talking about 1.3TB overall file size.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have one Seagate external HDD which I use for backup. When I connect it and check SMART I got this:
- Why does Seagate HDD have so different illogical SMART readings than other brands?
- Is it ok to just transfer large amout of files all at once from PC to external drive? I am talking about 1.3TB overall file size.

It seems to be running rather hot.
You should improve cooling. Place it on some laptop cooling pad.

 

[fzabkar]

The numbers are best viewed in hexadecimal. CrystalDiskInfo defaults to hex, but can be switched to decimal.

Here are Seagate's own documents:

Seagate SMART Attribute Specification:
http://t1.daumcdn.net/brunch/service/user/axm/file/zRYOdwPu3OMoKYmBOby1fEEQEbU.pdf
https://www.hddoracle.com/download/file.php?id=5129

Normal SATA SMART Attribute Behavior (Seagate):
http://t1.daumcdn.net/brunch/service/user/axm/file/Vw3RJSZllYbDc86ssL6bofiL4r0.pdf
https://www.hddoracle.com/download/file.php?id=5130

For example, the Power On Hours count is 7290698395025423. This converts to 0x19E6DA0000000F in hexadecimal.

https://www.binaryhexconverter.com/decimal-to-hex-converter

This hex number consists of two parts:

0x19E6DA0000000F -> 0x19E6DA / 0x0000000F

0xF (= 15 decimal) is the number of Power On Hours.

0x19E6DA is the number of additional milliseconds. This works out to 28 minutes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1+x+0x19E6DA+milliseconds+in+minutes&newwindow=1

 

[Zion_Mtrx]

It seems to be running rather hot.
You should improve cooling. Place it on some laptop cooling pad.

It is 4TB HDD and I would expect that after transfering 1.3TB files all at once it will get hot. 44C maximum temperature seems to be okay for external drive in this situation, right?

The numbers are best viewed in hexadecimal. CrystalDiskInfo defaults to hex, but can be switched to decimal.

Here are Seagate's own documents

Thank you for links but it seems again complicated for me. Western Digital have much more clearer data, I don't know why Seagate insist on this format. If you compleatly understand you links, is my drive 100% heathy?

 

[fzabkar]

The drive is not reporting any problems.

 

[Zion_Mtrx]

The drive is not reporting any problems.

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- Is it ok to just transfer large amout of files all at once from PC to external drive? I am talking about 1.3TB overall file size.

One question remains unanswered...

 

[SkyNetRising]

One question remains unanswered...

Place the drive on a laptop cooling pad and transfer away.