Question What is wrong with my hard drive? (results inside)

[Luke876]

It's running terribly with games, loading goes on forever. Just checked out the stats and I am less than half compared to my other hard drive in value and threshold seems very, very low. Although S.M.A.R.T. says the hard drive is fine, these numbers and my experience suggest otherwise? Could it be a cabling problem? I am using an extension to my nearest PSU connector.

https://imgur.com/10iKabR

View: https://i.imgur.com/10iKabR.png

My other HDD for comparison:

https://imgur.com/CtWcLT4

View: https://i.imgur.com/CtWcLT4.png

 

[rgd1101]

is a slow 5400 rpm drive

 

[Luke876]

is a slow 5400 rpm drive

Sorry I posted my other hard drive. I have reedited to the problematic one now.

The fact that games basically took 100x longer to load then they should was so concerning I now cannot even use it as a gaming hard drive.

 

[fzabkar]

The SMART data look good. The raw values of the Seek Error Rate and Read Error Rate attributes are seek and sector counts, not error counts.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ed-about-my-ssd-and-hdds-error-rates.3386561/

 

[Luke876]

The SMART data look good. The raw values of the Seek Error Rate and Read Error Rate attributes are seek and sector counts, not error counts.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/thr...ed-about-my-ssd-and-hdds-error-rates.3386561/

Yet something is obviously wrong given it does not load games properly and they perform badly too from the drive. I am using my other HDD and having no issues by comparison (reinstalled games on to there to test).

Why are the numbers so low for threshold and generally compared to my other hard drive? My other hard drive results:

https://imgur.com/CtWcLT4

View: https://i.imgur.com/CtWcLT4.png

 

[fzabkar]

There is no standard for SMART attributes. They vary between manufacturers and sometimes even between models from the same manufacturer. The PDF links in that other thread explain in detail the behaviour of Seagate's attributes and how they are calculated.

I would run a full surface scan with HDDScan. Look for slow sectors.

 

[Luke876]

There is no standard for SMART attributes. They vary between manufacturers and sometimes even between models from the same manufacturer. The PDF links in that other thread explain in detail the behaviour of Seagate's attributes and how they are calculated.

I would run a full surface scan with HDDScan. Look for slow sectors.

Wait, so HDDScan is not actually testing anything? These numbers are pulled from the hard drive itself and already 'exist'? Huh?

 

[fzabkar]

HDDs maintain their own SMART logs. HDDScan and every other SMART tool simply retrieves the log and displays it. However, HDDScan will scan the surface if you select the appropriate menu option.

One major advantage of HDDScan over the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tool is that it will identify any "slow" sector, ie it will tell you if any sector is difficult to read. The manufacturer's tool (eg SeaTools, Data LifeGuard) will only tell you if a sector is unreadable.