Should i be concerned? drive failing??

[Gmoney06ss]

So I just ran userbenchmark to get an idea of how my system was performing and was a little surprised to see I may have a sub par or failing drive. Zero other issues with the PC, I just run this from time to time to compare results. It says one of my storage drives is performin poorly, 28th percentile. Is this cause for alarm? It's only game data and could be easily replaced, so I'm not really scared of losing anything as it seems all my saves are on a cloud somewhere, and i can reinstall games on a different drive.

I was planning to go to an SSD soon, end of next month I was planning a refresh. New drives, gpu and ram. Cpu will wait until next gen ryzen is released to see where to go. But should i be looking at a new drive sooner? Is it safe to wait and upgrade as planned? This drive is fairly old, maybe 3 years, and going on build/refresh number 3.

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/14058151

 

[SkyNetRising]

Ignore userbenchmark. It just confuses people with those percentile ratings.
If you want to diagnose your HDD, then use proper tools, that can read SMART data.
Use HDtune health, post screenshot.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

I will do that this evening when I get home from work. Thank you.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

HD Tune Pro: ST1000DX002-2DV162 Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 119 99 6 206867560 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 98 97 0 0 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 100 100 20 614 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 100 100 10 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 77 60 30 51936671 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 99 99 0 983 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 100 100 20 508 ok
(B7) SATA Downshift Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(B8) End To End Error Detection 100 100 99 0 ok
(BB) Uncorrectable Error Count 100 100 0 0 ok
(BC) Command Timeout 100 100 0 0 ok
(BD) Unknown Attribute 95 95 0 5 ok
(BE) Airflow Temperature 77 62 45 387186711 ok
(BF) G-sense Error Rate 100 100 0 0 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 100 100 0 38 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 100 100 0 1484 ok
(C2) Temperature 23 40 0 68719476759 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 100 100 0 0 ok
(C7) Interface CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(F0) Head Flying Hours 100 253 0 215491394144422 ok
(F1) Unknown Attribute 100 253 0 23470479911 ok
(F2) Unknown Attribute 100 253 0 65890685365 ok

Health Status : ok

Is this what you needed to see? It's a copy of the screenshot, as I honestly don't know how to post pics.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

https://imgur.com/oJD7A4M

I think this is it.

 

[nobspls]

Your drive is not failing but the userbenchmark scores shows that something is not optimized correctly for your system, the performance is not on par with other people who has the same drive. Did you defrag the drive before you benchmarked?

 

[Gmoney06ss]

I don't think I've evr defragged this drive. However it was formatted prior to reinstall in the build. About 2 months ago, maybe? Should i go ahead and do a defrag? I will be replacing both HDD soon with a single 2TB SSD, probably within a month or so. But will be keeping both of the drives as backups.

Thanks for the quick response and a little peace of mind.

I am currently running a error scan with the HDtune software. So far so good, but only just started.

 

[SkyNetRising]

https://imgur.com/oJD7A4M
I think this is it.

Health is fine. No reason to worry.
You can also run Hdtune benchmark and show results here.

 

[Gmoney06ss]

Error test complete/ All good from the looks of it/Thanks for the help!!

https://imgur.com/DKOK6mU

 

[seagate_surfer]

Gmoney06ss, the takeaway here is that you need to be prepared for the worst. All drives will fail at one point or another. Best to have a back up plan in place.

The conventional wisdom by tech experts on backups is known as the 3-2-1 method. Basically you want:

3 copies of any data you don't want to lose.
2 different mediums it's stored on (so 2 different drives in your computer, for example).
1 copy kept offsite, to prevent against disaster.