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.
Well, if I had to guess, it's
18 write errors and starting to show read errors? She’s cooked. Get the data off there before it’s too late.
It's not worth risking with anything important. That being said I have a few drives that are in bad shape still being used for a Steam library. I'm comfortable with that use case because if the disks die I can just re-download the data. So unless you have a similar no consequences use case I would retire that drive.
CrystalDiskInfo reports it’s bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds
It can be bad and fast at the same time.
59 hours of usage with 140 reallocated sectors and a failing read error rate - my guess would be the drive has been dropped or damaged somehow, with such low hours of usage and a failing error rate. This would be an RMA if under warranty. Don't trust it for anything important.
Typically I would expect a mechanical WD drive to last for 5 full years of usage - about 44000 hours of run time or more. I've had several reach that age with zero or very few errors.
It is much more important if the numbers are increasing then how high the numbers are. You can have multiple bad sectors or on SSDs Media Errors and the drive will be good for years to come.
I would recommend data hygiene in the first place. Have a working backup! And if you can afford it (can you afford to loose your data) some kind of redundancy like raid zfs or therelike.
I have as of now multiple drives at home and work in operation that have some form of error but have not changed their error values in literally years. Could i have afforded to replace the drives? Sure, but i also could have had a drive as a replacement that fails during the first resilver of the array.
Even if though it says it’s writing, if it can’t read you might as well backup to /dev/null.
there's pending and uncorrectable sectors, stop using it. is this an external drive? considering the read error rate it might be caused by a cable issue, or possibly even the power source.
back in the days when i had no drives i'd zerofill the whole drive and perform a bad sector check, then partition it so that the bad sectors are skipped then use the remaining parts. i don't recommend doing this if you can afford proper replacements though, and it's also very likely to get worse over time.
It's a fine paper weight.
Current pending sectors....
No good.
If that number stays anything not 0, that means it's toast. Can't rely on it.
Turn it into a clock or Frisbee.
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