The drive has been only been powered on and used for read over the last 3+ years. CrystalDiskInfo reports it's bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds. Only wrote to it in the very beginning when I dumped a lot of archives into it. Otherwise, very few actual write cycles which is making me think it's still ok to use. However, this isn't a NAS drive and is consumer-grade bought many years ago.

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[–] 1 point 8 months ago

Yes in this case i would not disagree. The overall stats look no good and if it is a single drive then yes. Get the data off.

I take issue with the general statement of yours:

If that number stays anything not 0, that means it's toast. Can't rely on it.

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