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HDD health fluctuating between 100 and 0% health
Hi
Back on 9th May I had a bit of a panic and expected to have to spend a considerable amount of money replacing a hard drive. The reason for this was that a Toshiba P300 3TB HDD was showing up in Hard Disk Sentinel with a health of 0%. When I checked the details I found the Seek Error Rate was sitting at 67 although the disk was behaving perfectly normally. Anyway I spent some time looking for a replacement drive although I didn't do anything that day. Come the next day I boot up and low and behold the error had disappeared and hasn't reappeared - until now, nearly five weeks later. Two days ago (10/6/18) HDS records it as failing, it was perfectly OK yesterday (11/6/18) and failing again today (12/6/18).
Can anyone give me any idea as to what may be going on? Is the drive actually failing? Seemingly the drive is behaving perfectly as all files and folders appear to be readily accessible and I'm wondering just what the Seek Error Rate actually means. Should I replace the drive (it is only a backup) or can I still use it as normal.
Does anyone have any ideas please? Any help would be most appreciated. Whatever, I shall be keeping a very close eye on the drive for the forseeable future.
Tracey