Seagate ST300DM001-1CH160 is critical.

[016ive]

Hello there
I have a 3TB Seagate drive which is critical in hard disk sentinel and fails the short and long drive tests, so I downloaded seatools for windows and it also fails these tests in addition to the fix all. The hard drive is actually working, but it shows cyclic redundancy check error.
In the Event viewer there is an Error like this “The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.”
I’m running windows 10 and the rest of my PC specification is as follows:
Intel core i5 2500k+Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo 4.5 GHz overclock
Gigabyte GA-z68A-D3-B3
SAPPHIRE VAPOR-X R9 280X 3GB GDDR5 OC
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600 CL9 Dual Channel Memory Kit + CORSAIR Vengeance 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 CL9 Dual Channel Memory Kit
SeaSonic S12II Bronze 620W 80 PLUS Certified PSU
Western Digital (WD) Caviar BLUE WD5000AAKX 500GB SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache HDD
Western Digital (WD) Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB
Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 3TB 7200 SATA 6Gb/s HD
I don't know what to do to fix it and HD sentinel gives me about 10 days till complete failure it shows 9% health and 100% performance.
I'd really appreciate any help.

 

[bignastyid]

The hdd is failing there is no fixing it. If it's under warranty have Seagate replace it. If it's out of warranty buy a new drive.

 

[azaran]

Your hard drive has in every way conceivable told you that it is about to die a horrible screaming death. Back up your data off that drive and, assuming its still under warranty, RMA that sucker back to Seagate. If it isn't under warranty, back up your data, take the drive out of your computer, never ever use it again, and then replace it. If it is your system drive, either clone it on to a replacement drive or get ready to reload Windows on to a replacement drive.

Fixing it is likely a lost cause and personally I would never trust a drive that lists that many error states and would just take it apart for the cool magnets and shinny platters.

 

[thor220]

Replace the hard drive right away. This shouldn't come as a surprise as that hard drive model is literally the 2nd worst, ever. The only drive model to have more dead drives either due to DOA or failing under warranty is the seagate 11 series drives.

 

[016ive]

Thank you all for your reply. I knew the HDD was failing I was merely asking if there is way to delay it 😀...on a side note I'm now getting a new HDD. so what do you think about those?
Western Digital WD50EZRX Green 5TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD
Western Digital WD60EZRX Green 6TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD
Western Digital (WD) Black WD4003FZEX 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD
I care about reliability, capacity and price more than performance so I just included the black in case there is a high failure rate for the green.
P.S the black cost as much as the 6TB Green.

 

[thor220]

I would go for drives 3 TB or smaller. All the drives above that size need to cram in another disc and it increases chance of failure, aka drives over 3 TB have a high failure rate.

The WD Black is going to be your best bet. They come with a very long warranty and they are very fast hard drives. I've got 2 that get 220 MB/s write speed.

 

[azaran]

Thank you all for your reply. I knew the HDD was failing I was merely asking if there is way to delay it 😀...on a side note I'm now getting a new HDD. so what do you think about those?
Western Digital WD50EZRX Green 5TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD
Western Digital WD60EZRX Green 6TB SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache HDD
Western Digital (WD) Black WD4003FZEX 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD
I care about reliability, capacity and price more than performance so I just included the black in case there is a high failure rate for the green.
P.S the black cost as much as the 6TB Green.

With most current gen platter HDD the only performance difference you're gonna see is when its a 5400rpm drive vs 7200rpm. Unless you have to seriously be worried about the slight bump in power to spin the drive theres no real compelling reason to get a 5400rpm drive in a non-laptop system.

Of those choices, go with the Black. I'm biased on this only because every single WD green that I or anyone I know has had, has had horrible performance up until the day it died. They also died pretty damn quick, so at least the suffering didn't last very long. This is just my personal experience so I cant speak to actual industry numbers. If you haven't bought anything yet, I'd also recommend checking out the HGST Deskstar line. Great industry numbers for reliability and cost less than the WD Blacks (depending on seller). Only real downside is 3yr vs 5yr.