Not really. I just move anime on it that I haven’t watched yet.
Defraggler’s analysis shows 1 fragmented file (~330MB) and 2 total fragments.
there shouldn’t be that many seeks on the drive if most of the data is read sequentially which yours sounds like. Sounds to me like the drive might be dying, I’ve had SMART say a drive that would forget it’s partition when powered off was Healthy, so SMART could be wrong with it’s assessment. If someone else here knows more they’d probably give you a better answer. I could very likely be wrong though.
@SgtAwesomesauce can you help @TheDiddilyHorror with this I’ve exhausted my limited knowledge on HDDs and don’t want to give bad advice. You seem like you know your shit maybe you can help.
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Thanks for trying to help.
I’ll go to bed now so I won’t respond until tomorrow.
btw, gonna defrag another drive over night (42% fragmented, another one is 34%).
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No problem, have a good sleep.
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Plans for Saturday so far:
Livestream of Hellblade unless I move it to next week cause something legit may happen this weekend that could interfere with it. [Vague is Vague]
Get the Wi Fi working in Debian.
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Always drunk Bro
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Good man.
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Based on the 42% fragmentation, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve got torrents going into that drive. If so, that’s going to be a cause of a ton of seeks because torrents DO NOT store data sequentially.
I think you’re fine. Those values all look in spec to me.
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The drive with the issues had no fragmentation that was a different drive based on what he told me. scroll up to see the HD tune stats. He said the drive was mostly video files and had no fragmentation will over 1TB of empty space.
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Ah, I see that.
But yeah, all those stats are in spec. If you look at the “real value” column, you’ll see that the seek-error-rate stat is zero. I’m not sure why they do that, but I believe it starts at 100 and counts down.
Also, if you look at the raw data, it’s 0x000000000
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Ok, that makes sense. I was basing most of what said off what i’ve learn about file storage and access from HDDs in my software Systems class. And I’ve had it where SMART reports an effectively dead drive as healthy so I don’t trust it much. Always was good to learn more it just might take being wrong here and there.
Personally, I think the way SMART data reports is completely illogical and the opposite of smart…
That said, it’s helpful to at least get some metrics on the drive. You can almost always trust the power-on hours as a good indicator.
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I’ve heard that from quite a few people
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must be true then.
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The drive I had that lost its partition table if powered off that SMART said was good makes me think so.
smart wont tell you about hardware defects
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so it tells you nothing about a potentially catastrophic flaw real smart.
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