Hi, I've been experiencing some slowness from my hard drive. I bought the drive off eBay and it was listed as refurbished. I've used HDDlife and noticed that drive health and performance were both reported at 49%. Here is the full log. Code: HDDlife Project 3.1.0.157 (c) 2004-2007 by BinarySense Inc., [url=http://www.hddlife.com]HDDlife - freeware real-time hard-drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard-drive inspector is a proactive hard drive failure detection system that controls 100% of hard-drive risks.[/url], mailto:[email protected] 24/03/2009 20:44:50.906 Try checking MSI devices... failed! 0: Device State: Online 0: Device number: 0 0: Model: ST3160215SCE ST3160215SCE: DeviceInterfacePath: \\?\scsi#disk&ven_st316021&prod_5sce&rev_3.am#4&3223cd61&0&000#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} ST3160215SCE: Serial: 5RX14C8S ST3160215SCE: Firmware: 3.AMC ST3160215SCE: Manufacturer: SEAGATE ST3160215SCE: Disk size: 160041885696 bytes ST3160215SCE: Power status: Unknown ST3160215SCE: Health status: Good ST3160215SCE: Temperature: 38 ST3160215SCE: Max. Temperature: 47 ST3160215SCE: Bus type: SATA ST3160215SCE:>ATA specific parameters: ST3160215SCE: Performance status: Good ST3160215SCE: AAM Is NOT supported ST3160215SCE: APM Is NOT supported ST3160215SCE: Power On Hours: 190 ST3160215SCE: Health: 49 ST3160215SCE: Performance: 49 ST3160215SCE: Attributes count: 18 ST3160215SCE: Attributes: ST3160215SCE: ------------------------------------------------- ST3160215SCE: ID Flags Thresh Value Worst Raw ST3160215SCE: ------------------------------------------------- ST3160215SCE: 01 000f 06 66 5a 000000000835948a ST3160215SCE: 03 0003 00 64 61 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: 04 0032 14 64 64 000000000000004c ST3160215SCE: 05 0033 24 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: 07 000f 1e 44 3c 000000000062458b ST3160215SCE: 09 0032 00 64 64 00000000000000be ST3160215SCE: 0a 0013 61 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: 0c 0032 14 64 64 000000000000004c ST3160215SCE: bb 0032 00 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: bd 003a 00 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: be 0022 2d 3e 35 0000000028250026 ST3160215SCE: c2 0022 00 26 2f 0000001300000026 ST3160215SCE: c3 001a 00 4e 43 000000000835948a ST3160215SCE: c5 0012 00 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: c6 0010 00 64 64 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: c7 003e 00 c8 c8 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: c8 0000 00 64 fd 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: ca 0032 00 64 fd 0000000000000000 ST3160215SCE: ------------------------------------------------- Is there anything I can do to get the levels back up and improve my hard drive? Thanks.
i personally don't recommend buying from ebay especially a HDD because you don't know the HDDs true history, but you have the drive, is there anything you can do now ? . . . yes as it's a Seagate click here to goto seagate's site & download seatools & totally blank (destroy all data) on the HDD then install the OS from scratch & any other software you like, obviously each HDD manufacturer has their own utils to recertify their drives doing this recertifies a seagate drive as, ok BTW: it will take a long time, the last time i blanked a HDD i personally used D-Ban & it will be best to leave it blanking overnight and make a backup if you need the data
good look BTW: it's much easier than it sounds & appears to be, just be careful at boot that your choose the correct HDD, i learnt that lesson the hard way
Ok, it took 6hours 40 mins The health status and performance indicators have bumped up slightly to 54%. One thing I noticed is that the RAW Read Error has jumped up nicely to 96% but the seek error rate is around the same as before at 55%. Here is my new log. Is there anything else I can do to improve the Seek Error Rate or am I best off just forgetting about it until I can save a few quid to get a new HDD? Thanks
I'd personally get a new HDD, sounds like a dud. Make sure to back up a lot until you get the new HDD.
not neccisarily purely from a smart point of view Seagate are not the best drive, but i personally will only buy Seagate drives, however, i have a hitachi drv in my Vista box (birthday present) anyway here's my results Code: HDDlife Project 3.1.0.157 (c) 2004-2007 by BinarySense Inc., http://www.hddlife.com, mailto:[email protected] 26/03/2009 10:22:28.366 Try checking MSI devices... failed! Try checking MSI devices... failed! 0: Device State: Online 0: Device number: 0 0: Model: Hitachi HDS721616PLA380 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: DeviceInterfacePath: \\?\ide#diskhitachi_hds721616pla380_________________p22oab3a#5&cdd46ed&0&0.0.0#{53f56307-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Serial: PVE301Z9TTTH9M Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Firmware: P22OAB3A Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Manufacturer: Hitachi Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Disk size: 164696555520 bytes Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Power status: Unknown Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Health status: Good Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Temperature: 32 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Max. Temperature: 51 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Bus type: SATA Hitachi HDS721616PLA380:>ATA specific parameters: Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Performance status: Good Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: AAM Supported Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: AAM Enabled Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Current AAM: 128 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Recomended AAM: 128 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: APM Supported Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Current APM: 0 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Power On Hours: 620 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Health: 57 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Performance: 57 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Attributes count: 17 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: Attributes: Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: ------------------------------------------------- Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: ID Flags Thresh Value Worst Raw Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: ------------------------------------------------- Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 01 000b 10 64 64 0000000000000001 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 02 0005 32 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 03 0007 18 7d 7d 0000000300a000a0 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 04 0012 00 64 64 0000000000000078 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 05 0033 05 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 07 000b 43 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 08 0005 14 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 09 0012 00 64 64 000000000000026c Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 0a 0013 3c 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: 0c 0032 00 64 64 0000000000000078 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c0 0032 00 64 64 000000000000008b Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c1 0012 00 64 64 000000000000008b Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c2 0002 00 bb bb 0000003300110020 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c4 0032 00 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c5 0022 00 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c6 0008 00 64 64 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: c7 000a 00 c8 fd 0000000000000000 Hitachi HDS721616PLA380: ------------------------------------------------- and i'm not worried at all cos both health & performance are good, just ignor the other crap always a good idea
Thanks for your help. I seem to have sorted my problem. The problem seemed to be the molex connector. I don't have any sata power cables off my psu so I have one of those molex to sata connecter things. Anyway, I remembered that I had a little bit of a performance issue with a hard drive a while back with the same psu. One of the molex connectors was a bit dodgy and my pc was always stuttering. I guess I was using the same connector so I tightened to female prongs in it and the male bit from the sata side fit nice and snug and my pc performance has gone right up to the point where I can do things normally again with no issues. So, a new psu is what I'll get next as this one, although working fine, is quite old and very noisy.
