SMART for HDDs/SSDs as Fast As Possible
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- S.M.A.R.T. is a tool that can alert you if your hard drive or SSD is about to fail. How do you use it, and how much can you rely on it?
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That Smart HDD program at 2:02 is malware. Don't look for it.
up vote .... ?
Hard Disk Sentinel is a really good one
No man SMART or a slew of some software doesn't always find anything...until then you suspect something it's getting in Prompt and then see all the corrupted stuff.
Techquickie should add an annotation correcting this mistake. I almost looked it up before I saw this comment.
Just use Speccy. I don't really need the gritty details from CPU-Z GPU-Z and HDD Sentinel etc. etc.
Ummm the tool at 2:05 is malware and is not a legitimate tool. It is rogue software and even Kaspersky has an article on it!
is just a stock image
No it isn't, the software name and interface is exactly what the rogue is. This is not a 'stock' image.
...A stock image of Malware, either way it's unprofessional to show that and not mention that there are unsafe applications.
It even looks like malware, through and through!
SMART, the thing that never actually tell you when a HDD is dying.
I've had 9 drives die on me over the years, SMART never told me about them.
Not only that, running SMART on a failed drive still gives you a pass most of the time.
It's been completely useless for me. Only one drive gave me a SMART warning message, and the irony is it's the only one that's still working lol. I don't know what could be funnier.
@@KabooM1067 I have a caution in my HDD Now! And it made me concern because I don't wanna lose my saved games !!
MP3 compression as fast as possible please
sharks445 vs vinyl good
Not really something that can be fast as possible. But pretty much it cuts out the sounds that are hard for the human ear to hear. Like low end and high end sounds.
ArabOnARocketCamel No. no no no wrong wrong wrong.
MP3 compression uses auditory masking, a technology discovered in the 1800s that demonstrated that playing certain low tones would make certain high tones inaudible to the human ear. MP3 compression just gets rid of the tones you'd never be able to hear. If it were as simple as cutting the high and low off, then the first MP3 files wouldn't have been enormous and lossy as hell, back in the early 80s.
TacComControl auditory masking is just a small part of the entire encoding process. It's extremely detailed but the psychoacoustic model involves calculating multiple things like masking threshold, absolute threshold, using a masking curve, etc. That's done using an FFT. I don't know the sequence (it may be simultaneously) but a process called MDCT occurs, which is a major part of the encoding process. there's also quantization, Huffman coding, bitstream formatting, etc. There's no simple way of explaining MP3, so that's why I want to see what a Fast as possible would be like
sharks445
Ok basically the media is treated as an image, filtered, framed packaged.
CrystalDiskInfo!!!!!!!
Is it good?
@@jiagengliu the best
nice
Penny, your check engine light is on.
"Maybe the check engine light is broken"
Is there a check check engine light light?
Harry Tsang This comment needs to go up
When my check engine light goes on . . . I ignore it and it goes away. 200K still goes on and off for 180k miles. Pfffft, check engine lights. sure take you to a dealer I'll get you all taken care of just like a dentist
Once I ran a smart test as a drive was failing and it said it was all good. The drive failed 3 minutes later.
ArabOnARocketCamel you must have ran a s-m-r-t test...
Not so smart then
ArabOnARocketCamel he said it worked 77% of the time, so that's not really surprising
I really should have detected something, I could hear the read and grinding against the disc, it literally sounded like someone was sanding steel.
it was good when it checked... duh
🎵🎶🎶🎵 I am so smart, S-M-R-T. 🎵🎶🎵
You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel.
Windows actually has a pop up which shows up saying your drive is going bad..
I remember seeing this on a utility that came with some of my hardware when I built my rig (I think it came with my motherboard). I am very glad that this video not only explained it fully to me but also is getting the word out to people because having an early warning system, even with only a 77% detection rate, can save people data.
Apparently the SMART partition of my HDD is damaged and my HDD is going to die some day. It's been preforming very slowly recently, and I can't afford an SSD. There's event a prompt right after POST that I can't disable, all the time. One day, ill try to turn on my computer and it just won't. Just waiting for it's inevitable demise, _like you and I._
Story of my life
You're the Avatar, mate. Couldn't you like, ask someone to gift you an SSD?
Jonhy456 yeah just get a cheap 40 dollar hard drive or that caviar blue thingy
Oh I don't know why, their most affordable they have ever been..save your bucks and get one..one of the best things you could do and run a circle track Laps over HDD Lol
If an SSD is too expensive then just go for a mechanical drive. You get plenty of storage space for a really low price nowadays.
i have a 640 gig drive with smart alert running since about 5 years now and still going...yep very smart thing to do
The problem with Smart for the HDD is that it doesn't work.
If a drive is about to die, it will die. And smart won't tell you anything that would indicate that it will die.
Smart is useless. It's just a bunch of statistics.
Best thing you can do is don't even bother with Smart. Just have a back-up of your data. Or multiple copies if you have the money to spend on extra hdd's or ssd's or whatever storage devices you use. Or back up to the internet.
Always back-up.
On HDD yes, only in very rare ocasions it gives any useful warning, the best signal an HDD is failing is it becoming slow or making weird noises. On SSDs tho, it usualy gives warnign soon enough to make a backup
Love the ding sound affect and the flashy smile! Great video
unfortunately that is where the video ends and the shameless plug begins
MWB Gaming If you don't like the sponsor spots, I think they have a way to watch there videos in better quality without ads on their forum
but you have to pay for that
i prefer their passive ads where they use sponsored components in a build or whatever
It is at the end of the video, there's no more content to watch so you can just leave. What is the problem?
the ads are still wasting my data allowance which i have to pay for
and in some videos he puts extra content after the shameless plug at the end
I'm using SpeedFan (temperature monitoring and fan speed control). It includes a S.M.A.R.T. tab in its window which is the only function I use in SpeedFan. You have to check periodically on your own though, there is no automated warning.
Luke, you actually saved me. I had all of my engineering projects and 4 years of research (nearly 1.5TB) all saved on my laptop. I just checked using the SMART feature and my drive is about to fail. Thanks to your last install video for swapping drives on your bamboo laptop I will be able to fix this with a new HDD or even SSD. Seriously though I may have been unable to pursue my dream career if it wasn't for this video since everything I ever designed is on there. I think i'm also going to pick up an external HDD for backup too just in case! Thanks Linus media group!!!
Wow
@@NexusXP yea man, it saved me. Funny how a RUclips how to video can save a career
@@josh22920killer That's great
The problem is that there is no standardization for reporting metrics. This means that a value of hundreds of errors could be completely normal, or there might be a value of zero even when there are critical errors. It's confusingly random, and I say confusingly, because it basically makes SMART useless.
I work as a data recovery engineer and can definitely vouch about the SMART issues. Also, please backup. :( I hate it when I cannot recover your data because of platter damage.
First rule of I.T. is ...backup. Second rule of I.T. is ...backup. Third rule...know your infrastructure. Fourth rule...monitor...everything. Fifth rule...if the end user wants to do something person and it DOESN'T involve the company what so ever...check with that end user's manager if it isn't a common sense " hell no and do it with your own cell phone on YOUR cellular network"...choice.
That's all I have for now. :D
Oh how true your statement is. Unforunately, I see even business RAIDs and hard drives come through... Why there was no backup I will never know. Then again, people always assume that RAID is a backup when all it is is reduncency. Redundent does not mean replicated. It simply reduces the likelihood of failure.
PrB Pickles
Indeed. There should be multiple backups..AND multiple TYPES of each set of backups regardless.
Yep and surprisingly there rarely is... :( For a small business to have a catastrophic level of data loss it could mean the end of their business.
yeah it sucks...and more when the client don't understand it...
this video couldn't have come at a better time
how fast after reporting an error will the drive die?
Depends. The error will likely give an estimated life on the drive.
It varies based on the issue, and even most of the time using SMART won't give you any sort of "days left to live" thing.
Basically, if SMART detects an error, just immediately back up your stuff and replace the drive as soon as you can.
I actually have a laptop drive that started making whining and clicking noises every so often, so I replaced it and kept it. I now have it in my Desktop PC and it only makes noises rarely. There are no SMART errors reported, surprisingly.
+redflaggwaving that is horrible advice lol. drive's give errors right out of the factory, its inherent to their production process. you should maintain the 1 2 3 backup protocol on any data you care about.
www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
and no, dropbox etc is not a backup.
It depends on what the error is. I had a drive last over a year after SMART first noticed something wrong with it.
+tjeulink It's not horrible advice, it's oversimplified (which for some people, meaning those who don't understand technical stuff as much as you or I, is fine). Of course back up stuff you care about, but I would suggest as soon as S.M.A.R.T. gives a warning, figure out what is going to fail and make sure you are prepared for a failure in whatever way is right for your situation. So if the Reallocated Sector Count is excessively high, check data integrity and if necessary restore a backup to a new drive. If something indicative of old age is the problem, take a backup now or do a dump straight onto a new drive.
Have you done an episode on difference between a PC monitor and TV monitor and hence go into why there is such a price difference?
"That's the SMART thing to do" [teeth sparkle].. Lol
Would be Nice if the "Current"..Worst" and "Threshold" were explained....
As many dont understand how to understand it right.
Are you saying S.M.A.R.T is D.U.M.B? Doesn't Always Monitor Badness...
Don't you mean D.A.M.B.?
Ya how did you fail at that acronym, so easy, doesn't USUALLY monitor badness.
Doesn't Usually Monitor Badness
HIPPITY HOP
That's exactly what SMART does, it tallies every time something happens that isn't ideal including small things like power on count, which is brutal in the long run compared to power on hours like 1k hours to 1 power on count as far as wear goes, Power ons and hard stops are the best way to kill a hard drive besides the obvious physical abuses.
If you backup, you don't really need to worry about it, unless your backup drive fails lol
It would be smart is smart can be used on portable data bank
True. S.M.A.R.T. doesn't always warn us. Today my HDD suddenly working very slow. HD TUNE, and many other softwares didn't detect any issues. S.M.A.R.T. didn't warn.
I decided to start a test on HD tune...which showed up it's working at 2.5 mbps only.
The main point, make backups if you want to safe guard your data. The only person to blame is yourself if you lose everything from a harddrive failure.
on any HDD try running first Spinrite software for a reliablity test and more writen by Steve Gibson. It is a tool that you can use to re-map and potencially get the data from a bad secetor and relocate it.
"If you liked this video, like it. If you didn't like it, dislike it" - Ah man this takes me back.
My grandma's old Dell laptop ate two HDDs in its life time before they had to get a new one. At first it worked fine, but after a few years it was starting to run terribly slow and the HDD light was constantly on, so we turned it in to a computer repair shop who determined that the HDD needed to be replaced. She got the old one back in a nice external 3.5" SATA-USB enclosure and we saved her files, only for the new drive to meet the same fate in just a few months. It was very odd.
There are a lot of times when studying for a CompTIA exam that I'm hoping to find a video from you guys on a random topic. Happy when I find one. Angry when I don't! D:
I run smart checks regularly (Read: once every few months) but I don't think i've ever ran into a HDD that gave me an error, after which i panicked and backed everything up and replaced the drive
usually the drive just starts clicking, but smart thinks it's okay, so i freak out anyway and replace the drive
or, even more likely, the drive just gets full of data and a larger capacity drive is available. for example i went from 1TB to 2TB drives and now I have *checking* a 6TB and three 3TB drives. I'll upgrade the 3 TB drive to a 6 TB drive when I fill up a drive. I don't download as much so it shouldn't be an issue. YMMV
so much for SMART technology, almost all of my failed drives died before they smart tripped.. admittedly though they ere mostly all seagate drives and I haven't had the problem since i switched to other brands **cough** WD **cough** **cough**.. that was back in the olden days though, back before the 2GB barrier was broken. Would love to see a chart of how much S.M.A.R.T technology has improved over the years.. seems like drives are far more reliable than they used to be... or maybe that's just because I switched brands... I even have a drive that was smart tripped years ago and its still going without problems.. I just use it for secondary backups so no biggy if it dies.
Backups need to be made ***LONG BEFORE*** you receive any smart errors. If you're seeing smart errors, there's a chance you've already lost data...
[Edited, because I forgot again what dashes before and after a word do in these comments...]
I got one... : ( Corrupted my windows...
that's what smart warnings are for. i have a 1tb hdd that's seen so much action its smart recommends me backing up my data, even though it still works flawlessly.
@@JonJaded i can feel that...
You know most of the time the Hard disk is not bad, never every throw your hard drive until there is a bad sector.
If your Hard Drive is producing clicking sounds.
If your Bios hangs up most of the time if your hard drive is connected.
If your Hard Drive is not spinning up.
Then I have tried and tested solution, I will put a video on youtube soon.
I hope this can save your hard drive and data.
I just ran Seatools a few days ago & it didn't report any errors. Yet my Hitachi HDD is over 5 years old. I wonder if the bearings will go out before anything ever gets remotely corrupt.
It's interesting how many people just settle with secondhand, even refurbished hard drives just because they are cheap.
Sure, HDDs are one of the cheaper parts of a computer, but once you start putting things inside it easily becomes one of the most expensive things you own. Especially when it goes wrong.
Here's a warning for very few people I suppose, but for which I always like to share. Back in the holiday seasons of last year, I had two 3tb Seagate drives on my Synology DS214play flagged with SMART errors while I was out on vacation.
The way I understand it, Synology NASs automatically stops working when drives give out SMART errors, and since both were flagged simultaneously after a firmware upgrade, I almost lost all my data.
I ended up having to plug one drive into the PC, pay for recovery software (there's no good free alternative to recover data from hdds with the proprietary filesystems these NASs use), and then buy another two drives to get the whole thing up and running again. They were brand new, couple of months of usage.
I have no way to prove it or to be absolutely certain about it, but I'm almost sure that it was the NAS firmware update that borked the drives.
I'm still using them as external units without a problem, and I just got a kit to reset the SMART status as it's something understandably hard to do ( or else the market of used hdds would be filled with soon to fail drives).
I certainly understand the company overzealoussness regarding safety, specially in face of so many Seagate drives specifically with 3Tb that failed in recent years, but it was a horrible experience for me personally. And I also have to mention that I got my NAS pre-packaged with the drives on Amazon... it wasn't a case of me putting bad drives there on my own, they came with the NAS.
Perhaps it was pure coincidence and both my Seagate drives are yet to fail, but honestly, I've been using them for almost a full year now with no signs of it actually failing. So there you go. It's common knowledge I guess, but if you do have critical data, don't trust a single NAS to keep it safe, even if you are running it on RAID 1.
Keep in mind SMART is about thresholds, a drive can be on its way out but not trigger a smart status until its exceeded manufacturer set thresholds - bad sectors for example, your might have hundreds or even thousands before a SMART fail is triggered.
Win10 has a SMART error popup... ive seen it. My bios also shows SMART errors
please do an as fast as possible with proper battery care / extending battery life and common myths (battery memory in lithium-ion batteries, for example)
Backups, one is none and two is one. Use both state backups, such as system images, and dynamic such as raid.
i just use the samsung magician, it has a smart segment. not only does it say "ok" or not, but also give you raw and percentage values, so you can check it once every now and then to make your own conclusions
I downloaded a blue screen of death joke screen thing, but I didn't read that it will give you a S.M.A.R.T error for windows 7 or above or something like that. BSOD wasn't coming up so I assumed it didn't work. I turned of my computer. The next day, I got a message when I booted up my computer. You guessed it, a fake smart error. I freaked out! My dad took it to a 'certified pc technician'. He charged $60 just for reinstalling windows, even if it was a real smart error that probably would have been no use! About 6 years later, I wondered back onto that same site, and read a small piece of text. Will show smart error on newer operating systems. And I never told my dad!
Thinking about replacing my 10 year old Samsung 5400rpm HDD. It has never given me any problems so far, but 10 years of extended usage, it might be at the end of it's lifespan
Private Trackers AS fast AS possible
Ya know, it's funny that on Windows you can get only "OK" or "Failing" without a 3rd party app, when just about every Linux distro has that built in. GNOME Disks has all that detail about S.M.A.R.T., and is installed on many GUI-using distros, including those that don't even use the entire GNOME desktop.
Superfetch a.k.a Readyboost As Fast As Posible
Intel Optane AFAP (A Big New Thing that's kinda confusing for many)
An idea for a fast as possible... audio and visual dithering as fast as possible
My laptops smart was one of the 23% didn't alert errors. Thankfully was able to recover my files.
2yrs with a intel Taylorsville Data Center SSD 800gb that says S.M.A.R.T. error. Zero issues and windows still gives me the same. Could it be bad? Yep. But the drive is built for data center clusters in HP blade systems and a work horse used on a desktop pc. But doesn't mean it couldn't go.
from spoiled vegetables over relationships to hard drives, great transition
SMART is a nice concept, however in over 25+ years of PC use, all drives I've had fail with some data loss have all done so while still passing SMART checks.
Sad thing about is that many companies tool ( smart ) says the driver is good even when it's failing just so they don't claim warranty or just have a policy that warranty is applicable only if the drive is almost dead with missing files until that time the 1year warrenty may be over ...
I had a drive with allocated sector error (75) and gradually increasing once it gone above the critical and driver just failed they said it's my mistake somehow that I peer pressured the hdd to give himself up.....
like to see a clip if bad sectors can be truly fixed. several software out there say it can. but others say it can't.
Damnit TheLegend27!!!
Still the trick is interpreting the S.M.A.R.T data correctly. One of my HDDs had 78 reallocated sectors almost since the day I installed it which many S.M.A.R.T readout applications will warn you about and tell you your drive may be failing. This drive is however still running just fine 7 years later.
A change in reallocated sectors indicates a problem, not just a non-zero reading. However, if I bought a HDD with reallocated sectors out of the box, I would RMA it.
Anyone remember WD caviar 850Mb drives? I went through about 6 of them in a couple of days in 2 different PCs lol.
They all just starting making a loud clack sound every 2 sec or so, opened 2 of them up and found the heads were just bashing themselves into the center hub at full noise from the outermost position.
Isn't it still redundant to call hard drives HDDs? Is a disk not already considered a drive (and vice-versa)?
I've been using Crystal Disk Info for many years, does help and like you can get the values of and set tolerances if needed. Also for others.. yes there is an option to convert the HEX to Decimal format.
Pro tip for SanDisk SSD users: SanDisk has an SSD Dashboard utility that shows your (SanDisk only) SSD health stats.
:( I just had a Hard Drive with 480 gigabytes of precious pictures, videos, and backups :( feels bad man
I just started having problems with my SHDD when i saw this video in my subs, you guys are saints.
Now that you covered this how about covering software based mirroring using something like Windows backup of filesync.
On my other computer, motherboard says smart error and windows doesn't detect one of the drives. Yep, looks like one of the drives died. Looking into it in the weekend. I already have backups of important stuff so it doesn't matter if I lost a drive. It's either the 11 year old hdd or the 7 year old hdd. From the size of the still readable drive, it's the 7 year old one that died.
I can attest to SMART not being perfect. I recently had to replace a SSHD two months ago that went bad. The proof was in the form of write errors and massively longer than normal boot times, not any sort of information from SMART.
Even if you monitor smart every day and it says it's at 100% there's a chance your hdd might just die out of the blue without warning, happened to me on a 3tb wd black a couple o f months ago, no error, no warnings, nothing, just died overnight.
I would like to see Shadowplay vs OBS vs Raptr vs Dxtory.
I think these 4 programs are the main programs used to capture gameplay. (Fraps and Bandicam used to be huge)
It would be nice to see which has the best footage and which has the biggest FPS / performance hit.
Since I suspect Shadowplay to be superior. A Green vs Red comparison of these programs would be nice too.
using cmd to check my HDD it says Predf, I looked it up and it means "predicted to fail". I think im fine
no one else spotted at 2:49 "disc-oncerting noises"??
If wmic isn't recognised then navigate to c\windows\system32\wbem in command prompt and then use the command "wmic" and "diskdrive get status"
write vmic first in a separate line then press enter
the you get a current directory that looks like wmic:root\cli>
then type diskdrive get status (dont change anything)
and it will sayit to you
then type QUIT (all in caps )
to remove that mode from command prompt
I just watched an interesting ad before this video.
WhattheDesigns™ | SELTEN INTROS Microsoft Taiwan some ad about Microsoft office 365
P. S. It wasn't in English.
ads are getting smarter
Prax xor Yeah for the past month, other than the few annoying 8 minutes long ads that appears, the ads are quite good.
Gabriel Umoh You missed the joke but whatever.
I use both CrystalDiskInfo and Hard Disk essential for my clients
Those "new fangled information systems" are known as Driver Information Centre (DIC) [yes, pronounced like the name abbreviation of Richard.]
You looked so accomplished with that last pun.
You guys should do a video on why LCD screens get slow when it gets super cold outside. I can't find much info about it on Google :(
I wouldn't mind if S.M.A.R.T. extended to other hardware, though. It would be nice to know in advance if my graphics card or sound card was having issues _before_ it completely crapped out on me.
It ONLY costs 12 bucks a month ONLY if you buy it for the entire year up front in one lump sum. Otherwise' it's 16 bucks a month NOT including the domain.
Started buffering when he said bad at the beginning... no joke.
so, it's like term explanation, but lacks short description of smart's attributes
People should really have a backup source active. period. Don't wait until your storage devices is acting weird. At least back up your most important data if the entire system partition is infeasible. You can automatically sync data to cloud storage like Google Drive, or at the very least use a thumb drive.
Data corruption is more of a problem then hardware failure.
Another good idea is using SpinRite.
3:11 LTT must trademark that 😂
how long does it take to go bad, my laptop hasn't had problems for over 8 years. Honestly i am hoping mine fails soon so i can tell myself to buy a new laptop
Takes forever for a failing drive
HDD companies use a figure called MTBF (number of hours before the average drive fails). It's not an exact science but I've had a drive last more than 10 years and a recent sudden drive failure after 6 years. More info knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/174791en?language=en_US
Also SaHaRaSquad has a valid point. If the laptop or drive DOES fail you could lose some or all of your data. Best upgrade and migrate before that happens! :)
Drives only fail if you get the shitty brand ones
No they also fail if you smash them.
my western digital black 500gb drive that I got from a cash register has been making a loud clicking noise every once in a while for well over a year maybe almost 2 and hasn't failed anything
Smart reports one of my hard drives to have done 60,000 hours with 4000 power cycles
Cmd prompt says ok but Crystal disk says caution with 97 rellocated
There's only two important things in life:
Love, and backups.
hey Luke did you guys really put an image @2:00 of a fake optimization and analysis program?
Hopefully my 5 to 6 year old 1TB HDD never shown any problems, did chkdsk, diskdrive status and even used crystal disk last year because it was giving read errors it turned out that I plugged it in the wrong sata port (eSata port embedded on my motherboard).
Thanks Luke ! Maybe a video on boot loaders ? or MBR vs UEFA in a bit more detail that the "BIOS and UEFI" video ? :')
My 120GB (bootdrive) SSD which is almost filled up is at 98% health and it has been on for over 7000 hours.
9 hours late. my pc just stopped booting after a week of chdsk constantly alarming me by fixing shitload of stuff. now i dont know if its my drive or some nasty timebomb worm
btw if someone cares my pc crashes 10 sec into the windows booting logo animation and restarts
Gotin Fuklio I know someone on Twitter that was having something similar but then he changed his hard drive and it was working for a day and again the same thing and it said something wrong with Windows so he uninstalled it and got Windows pro worked for a week and now he uses his old 2008 iMac happened like 3 weeks ago
If Windows can't boot and CHKDSK fixed "lots" of things it's probably a bad drive :( You can buy cheap USB drive caddy and hook the dying drive to a separate computer to confirm it's fate. www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=usb+drive+caddy
My SMART thing to do when I have enough money is to get more disks to extend my 2-terabyte and backup my 2-terabyte because SMART reports an error on it after around six years of use.
I use CrystalDiskinfo to monitor my drive, so far so good though my Seagate barracuda HDD makes me nervous
Kinda messed up that you didn't actually show or mention CrystalDisk and just had it in the thumbnail, but included malware in the video.
My SSD is making some funny noises. Should I be concerned?
Coil whine?
why dose memory cards and hard drives comes in specific storage space ?
I liked the video in general, however I'd rather have seen a: what SMART indicates with these numbers; since the interpretation is what matters.