Hi everyone, I hope someone may be able to help me with this situation.
I have a PC that was built mainly for professional audio 6 years ago, i7 4790K, no dedicated graphic card, 16GB RAM, Gigabyte H97 D3H CF motherboard.
Drive configuration has been changed through the years, but since last year it was Samsung SSD EVO for system, 3 Hard drives in the case and 2 external drives, mostly for backup.
PSU is Zalman ZM850 HP 850W
In case there was a Toshiba 2TB DT 01 AC200 and two WD Blacks, one 2TB and 3TB,
External drives were one really old 1TB Samsung F1 and 3TB toshiba DT01 AC300
Generally in almost 6 years I had no issues. One old drive I used for backup died few years ago and that's it.
Then a week ago, external 3TB Toshiba started to act out. I checked in HD Tune pro, and I got a yellow Warning for reallocated sector count. Surface scan showed bad sectors.
Ok, no big deal, got a WD Red to replace it, it was a backup external disk anyway.
Than yesterday, suddenly second (this one is internal) Toshiba drive that was OK week ago started showing identical warning too. Same thing, I was able to save most of the data, but there are bad sectors.
Toshiba drives were bought within one year, one in 2016, the other in 2017. So these are not from the same batch.
I was saving the rest of the data today and moving them to the new WD Red and then noticed that suddenly second external drive, old Samsung F1 shows "Attention" about interface error CRC count. Ath this moment it is still working OK.
I had no power surges in recent weeks that I know of, and apart those drives, all other PC components seem to work smoothly. I would suspect that PSU may be the culprit, but external Toshiba has it's own power source, it was is in the external case I am now using for the new WD Red I got.
I don't have UPS, but power should be stable enough and everything is connected through APC with surge protection, not sure if this is important to mention.
Now I am not sure what to do. I am becoming nervous to just keep replacing drives and possibliy find out that another one has died without apparent reason in a few days. I can technically build a new PC but this one is still completely fine for all my needs so I would prefer to avoid spending money if I don't have to, I am not gaming and rarely work on projects that really tax my CPU much, so there is no real need for better PC.
Any ideas what may be happening to hard drives? I tried to search through forums but didn't find similar problem.
I have a PC that was built mainly for professional audio 6 years ago, i7 4790K, no dedicated graphic card, 16GB RAM, Gigabyte H97 D3H CF motherboard.
Drive configuration has been changed through the years, but since last year it was Samsung SSD EVO for system, 3 Hard drives in the case and 2 external drives, mostly for backup.
PSU is Zalman ZM850 HP 850W
In case there was a Toshiba 2TB DT 01 AC200 and two WD Blacks, one 2TB and 3TB,
External drives were one really old 1TB Samsung F1 and 3TB toshiba DT01 AC300
Generally in almost 6 years I had no issues. One old drive I used for backup died few years ago and that's it.
Then a week ago, external 3TB Toshiba started to act out. I checked in HD Tune pro, and I got a yellow Warning for reallocated sector count. Surface scan showed bad sectors.
Ok, no big deal, got a WD Red to replace it, it was a backup external disk anyway.
Than yesterday, suddenly second (this one is internal) Toshiba drive that was OK week ago started showing identical warning too. Same thing, I was able to save most of the data, but there are bad sectors.
Toshiba drives were bought within one year, one in 2016, the other in 2017. So these are not from the same batch.
I was saving the rest of the data today and moving them to the new WD Red and then noticed that suddenly second external drive, old Samsung F1 shows "Attention" about interface error CRC count. Ath this moment it is still working OK.
I had no power surges in recent weeks that I know of, and apart those drives, all other PC components seem to work smoothly. I would suspect that PSU may be the culprit, but external Toshiba has it's own power source, it was is in the external case I am now using for the new WD Red I got.
I don't have UPS, but power should be stable enough and everything is connected through APC with surge protection, not sure if this is important to mention.
Now I am not sure what to do. I am becoming nervous to just keep replacing drives and possibliy find out that another one has died without apparent reason in a few days. I can technically build a new PC but this one is still completely fine for all my needs so I would prefer to avoid spending money if I don't have to, I am not gaming and rarely work on projects that really tax my CPU much, so there is no real need for better PC.
Any ideas what may be happening to hard drives? I tried to search through forums but didn't find similar problem.