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Xas1953NC:
As an aside, the external usb hdd, drive J Graphic drive, is one that shows red temp of 60c. Sometimes this drive will not be recognized or it will take 2 minutes or so for it to be recognised. Seagate Dashboard considers hdd as ok. In the past I have set the spin down time to 15 min when not being accessed but what happened is that even if I were not accessing the drive it's led would fluctuate and I would be unable to carry out particular actions as I was greeted with "not corresponding" messages. Things returned to normal when the fluctuating stopped. I assumed the fluctuating was due to the drive attempting to spin up and failing to do so right away as sometimes I had to wait about 10 minutes before it stabilised. I then set the spin down time to "Never" and that resolved the fluctuating. The downside could be the 60c red temp. The drive is only half full so has not intruded into the 20% area. I have now disconnected it and will connect to my wife's computer as she has room on her external usb hdd to copy across from the J drive. Quite a few years ago I problems starting up my previous XP computer and found it was a faulty mouse. As I said regarding the current problem, removing all peripherals and then starting up did not resolve the issue.
Shane:
Post what western digitals tool shows
http://download.wdc.com/windlg/WinDlg_v1_28.zip?v=7990
Reason why I want to see the data is you said that the drive acts fine once it has been on for a bit and stays fine. It isnt until it has been off for a while that it seems to be very slow before getting back to speed. So I am curious if there is a hardware problem with the components inside, where when they are cold they are not spinning the platters are easily as they should. But once the components heat up then it gets to full speed.
Looking at the actual smart data might let me see if any numbers line up with something like that happening.
Shane
Xas1953NC:
Thanks for the prog. I installed it and it showed a list of WD hdds. I did a quick test on the 2x640 gb ones but do not know if any files are made to send to you. I tried to use a scroll window screen grab prog but it was not capable of doing so.
Xas1953NC:
Sorry Shane, I forgot to mention that they both had green ticks against them in the drive view list before and after the test
Boggin:
This is what HDDScan3.3 gives for mine - would this be better for the info you want Shane ?
http://hddscan.com/
These all had green lights next to them and to copy & paste I just right clicked in a blank area to the right of the grid - clicked on Select all to highlight then pasted into the reply box - so no attachments to chew on with.
HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. Report
Model: TOSHIBA MK6465GSXN
Firmware: GH101M
Serial: 91RXT06ST
LBA: 1250263728
Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.3
Report Date: 28/01/2015 23:20:18
Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold
001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
002 Throughput performance 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
003 Spin Up Time 100 100 0000000000-084A 001
004 Start/Stop Count 100 100 0000000000-14DC 000
005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
007 Seek Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
008 Seek time Perfomance 100 100 0000000000-0000 050
009 Power-On Hours Count 076 076 0000000000-25A8 000
010 Spin Retry Count 204 100 0000000000-0000 030
012 Device Power Cycle Count 100 100 0000000000-14D5 000
191 G-sense Rate/Servo tracking 100 100 0000000000-0046 000
192 Emergency Retract Count 100 100 0000000000-004F 000
193 Load/unload Cycle Count 082 082 0000000002-D71C 000
194 HDA Temperature 100 100 30 C 000
194 HDA Temperature Maximum 100 100 53 C 000
194 HDA Temperature Minimum 100 100 11 C 000
196 Reallocation Event Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
197 Current Pending Errors Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
198 Uncorrectable Errors Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 0000000000-0000 000
220 Disk Shift 100 100 0000000000-0036 000
222 Loaded Hours 082 082 0000000000-1D46 000
223 Load Retry Count 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
224 Load Friction 100 100 0000000000-0000 000
226 Load-in Time 100 100 0000000000-0146 000
240 Heads Flying Hours 100 100 0000000000-0000 001
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