Lenovo Hard Drive Test

[cubbykc]

I was having a pretty good day 'til the little red mark showed up on the Toolbox symbol.  The hard drive failed the random seek test.   I repeated it with the same results. I have the Active Protection System installed and know it's been working.  About how long do I have before I can expect it to fail?  It's just a 100gb drive and was probably going to be replaced soon anyway but this time of year wasn't the best.  Luckily I have its big brother, but the 15.4 seem more like holding a desktop that closes.

[lead_org Microsoft MVP Contributor]

No one can tell you when the drive will fail, the best thing is to backup the data early and expect the worst.

[Mornsgrans · Accepted solution]

I won't exspect the worst but getting active before the final crash

Check the S.M.A.R.T.-results f.ex. with Everest or AIDA32. If there is a warning or failure, buy a new HDD and clone the old disk onto the new one after replacing the old one.

[orion9727]

crystal disk has some tests plus disk info.
check out his site crystaldew web.
this is most guys use the disk info.
his site is in japanese with some english but the tools are multi lang.

hard drives in laptops get tossed around alot plus normally just moving them while they read a write is not good.

good news is the new 2.5 inch drives made now are cheap and way better then they were then.
tosibha and hitachi are pretty much the same animal really good plus there super quite and fast and samsung is great too.
stay away from other brands and the WD are all junk now.

windows has a hard drive benchmark built in threw the CMD command.
as well as disk info -not many people use it but it there.
plus the snap in console will alert you to issues and so will the event viewer.

crystal disk info will tell you life,temp,all the smart info plus you change change the noise of the disk and performance too.

aida is nice but very old not surported anymore as he sold the program everest i think they are more of a total system info rather then a disk info program.

[cubbykc]

Thanks.  I've always had really good luck with Hitachi.  Got a good deal on a Seagate Barracude.  Thought I take a chance just to keep it going until after the holiday (negative cash flow) season.  It's not hear yet, but sometime after the first of the year, it'll be relegated to back-up duty by a shiny new SSD.