mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
I last checked the health of my drives a few days ago, using Crystal Diskinfo. Smart values were good, with all the 3 drives being healthy. I shut the system down yesterday morning as I was going to be out the whole day. I turned it on again at around 8:30 pm, did some work, and shut it down normally.
I turned it on some 20 minutes ago, and it took an awfully long time to boot. Disk activity light was on solid. After waiting eons, got the log in prompt (it normally comes up pretty quick); after log in, system was unresponsive to mouse actions and the Windows key on the keyboard. Ran Task Manager and then Resource Monitor from there; disk 0 was crazy active. Rebooted the system. Was much more responsive this time, but the disk activity started again. Resource Monitor again showed heavy disk activity on Disk 0. I managed to run Crystal Diskinfo. After much waiting, the screen popped up.
This time, I'm getting a Caution status instead of good on Disk 0. Reallocated sector count and Current Pending Sector count have yellow status in the SMART screen. Shots attached. I guess I better replace the drive asap. Fortunately I had imaged the OS about 10 days ago and done a full back up of the contents a week ago.
This is my first disk failure; I keep my disks cool and have generally replaced them before they start acting up. This drive is 3 - 3.5 years old.
All advice appreciated. Thanks.
I turned it on some 20 minutes ago, and it took an awfully long time to boot. Disk activity light was on solid. After waiting eons, got the log in prompt (it normally comes up pretty quick); after log in, system was unresponsive to mouse actions and the Windows key on the keyboard. Ran Task Manager and then Resource Monitor from there; disk 0 was crazy active. Rebooted the system. Was much more responsive this time, but the disk activity started again. Resource Monitor again showed heavy disk activity on Disk 0. I managed to run Crystal Diskinfo. After much waiting, the screen popped up.
This time, I'm getting a Caution status instead of good on Disk 0. Reallocated sector count and Current Pending Sector count have yellow status in the SMART screen. Shots attached. I guess I better replace the drive asap. Fortunately I had imaged the OS about 10 days ago and done a full back up of the contents a week ago.
This is my first disk failure; I keep my disks cool and have generally replaced them before they start acting up. This drive is 3 - 3.5 years old.
All advice appreciated. Thanks.