![]() Read the part about using the BOOTABLE environment to fix bad sectors via Long Test. So you may have to repair problems and run the testing again to confirm everything: Just run the appropriate diagnostics, some of which REPAIR errors. I'll see if any errors show up in this process. I am copying data onto the drives - 2.71 Tb of data onto the 2.72 Tb of formatted space available. I'd try this test on some WD Red drives I have but this 'advanced' test is only available for Seagate drives. I won't include them if I know they are bad - it's just this one test failing out of a everything I've used that passed - it almost seems like the test itself is buggy. I am planning to sell this server, obviously I'd like to sell it with at least one 3 TB drive. I have a new server that has all of my data on it. These are in a small server with a separate OS drive that is fine. Thanks for the comments!!Īctually I don't have any data on these drives at present - the various tests have zeroed/written data over 100% of both drives (and both passed). If one of the 3TB HDD's fails you'll have some indication of that so you can replace and then make backups again. You should have space left over on the 2nd 3TB HDD even after both backups since the data is compressed. Use a program like Acronis True Image to:Ī) make a backup IMAGE of your C-drive (Windows etc), andī) make a backup IMAGE of one of your 3TB HDD's (if it's a different drive).īoth images can be set to be VALIDATED automatically (I do backup/validate once a week). I doubt it's perfect because that requires bit-level read/write (though RAID won't do that either on a regular basis). This software solution will also tell you if it has issues reading and writing. For example, you could set the entire "E" drive as source and "F" drive as destination and tell it to BACKUP (if you add a file, it scans say once daily, then automatically copies that file). The above is not RAID, it simply scans folders and makes changes to the destination. Maybe even an inexpensive RAID card.Īnother solution is to use something like SYNCBACKSE FREE edition. If software, switch to hardware (will lose all current data though). Perhaps you need a different RAID solution. It sounds like you STOPPED that due to the redundancy so maybe investigate why that happened. I'd suggest sticking with your RAID1 solution. Not all tests indicate impending doom, though I had the same exact model and it gave me warning signs of issues a few months before dying completely. They may continue to work fine, so it's hard to say. In searching I cannot find any information about this specific test and throughout all of these tests no further errors are logged in Event Viewer. The other major test fails quickly on BOTH drives - the SCT Write Same Erase fail on both drives - not instantly but within 5 minutes. ![]() * Generic Short and Long (6-7 hours each drive) passes. * Overwrite full (6-7 hours each drive) passes. These two drives are from the 2012-2013 timeframe when it appears there was a bad run of Seagates that fail at an abnormal rate.Īnyway I was expecting one bad drive - when running Seatools I can run several tests successfully on both drives: In Event Viewer one of them was reporting Disk errors. I had them in a RAID 1 mirror array and kept losing redundancy - I never actually lost data. I suppose the easy answer is my two Seagate 3 TB drives (ST3000DM001) are toast. ![]()
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