Hi!

After a long time, my Dell SATA II 2 TB HDD has started showing yellow on CrystalDisk.

The recommendation seems to be to get data out of it sooner than later and replace it.

My main usecase for it is as the main space where I install Windows programs and store Plex media. My C drive is SSD but much smaller. This HDD is D drive.

Seagate’s selling an 8 TB SSD for CAD$189 and a 2 TB one for CAD $101.

Question for you good folks -

  1. Anything I can do before I consider throwing money at this problem? Bad/Unrecoverable sectors seem to be at 100. But is there still a way I can get more life out of this drive? Or is it living it’s last breaths?
  2. What HDD should I go for? I’m optimizing for price and the use cases I mentioned above.
  3. If I do go the replacement route, what’s the best way for me to move drives? Should I clone the old to the new or copy files one by one? I do want to maintain the Program Files status of D drive. So I would be making the new drive as my D drive. Any FOSS tools for this transition?

Thanks!

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Thank you so much for your deep analysis and help in reading these charts 😄 I have moved all my Plex content out of there and I’ll make a list of the Programs installed on there. There are some downloads and other folders, mostly related to software installs and experiments I’ve run over time, which I’ll have to catalog and hopefully move.

    The disk isn’t making any clicking/grinding noises. At least, none that I can hear through the chassis.

    As for the chkdsk command, seems like Victoria can also do that, but you would prefer the system tool?

    Unfortunately, I do not have any option but to continue to use the disk for now. I’ll minimize the use, but it’ll take me a while to get a replacement disk. Hopefully it holds on till then!

    I see you’re a professional. So thank you for all your time! The data on there isn’t the “can’t lose” variety, but I’ll get Teracopy on the task asap!