What to do with HD that fails SMART?

[ser_renely]

I have 3 Seagate 3tb drives that failed SMART. They were in a raid and I reformatted them for regular use. They seem fine other than that....would I be able to use them for anything or would that be too risky?

Thanks,

 

[SkyNetRising]

Cab you show screenshots from HDtune health for those drives?

 

[mdd1963]

3 TB drives in particular are infamous for 'heading south' at an elevated rate compared to 1-2 TB drives, or even 4 -12 TB drives....

YOu can keep an eye on reallocated sectors, and when count starts to elevate (as is typical if a drive suffers a slight head crash), don't be surrpised, and, don't count on the drive for storage of anything other than that which can be easily redownloaded. (disposable videos, etc..)

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hello ser_renely, the best way to test a drive is use the proprietary software for them. For Seagate drives it is Seatools. SMART values do not always paint a clear picture of the health of a drive as Seagate does not publish attributes and thresholds. Therefore those results should be taken with a grain of salt. If after running the test it does not come up with any errors, then the drive is fine to use.

 

[ser_renely]

Here is an image of the HD Tunde health report

 

[RolandJS]

I hope you are making full images of your OS and Data partitions onto external media on a routine basis.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Here is an image of the HD Tunde health report

Middle drive has failed. Don't use it anymore.
Drives with pending sectors - you have to resolve those sectors. You can do that with MHDD (scan with relocate option).
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
Supposedly Seatools for DOS can do that also.

 

[mdd1963]

If you are in a RAID 5, I'd advise getting any needed data to another external drive before attempting resilvering with a drive replacement, the stress of which often causes another failure in a 2nd drive, losing all data at that point.

 

[ser_renely]

Here is an image of the HD Tunde health report

Middle drive has failed. Don't use it anymore.
Drives with pending sectors - you have to resolve those sectors. You can do that with MHDD (scan with relocate option).
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
Supposedly Seatools for DOS can do that also.

Great thank you for your help, appreciated.

Thanks to everyone else as well.