Crystal Disk Info Vs Hard Disk Sentinel
Mina Spartin
We purchased a couple of HP RDX Removable drives used for backups in the hopes of reusing them for drives for laptops. The drives in them are Scorpio Blue 500GB WD5000BEVT-60AORTO. The only application that recognizes them EASEUS Partition Master but we get nothing but errors when we try to format, partition or just about anything (error occurred while writing partition chains on disk) and no luck with any utilities from WD. I was not sure if it had anything to do with the firmware or if we are just wasting our time. Any help would be appreciated we have spent a lot of time trying to make them work and probably could have just purchased disks made for laptops and saved time and money.
Do you know if WD offers any different firmware for the drives? I see drives with that Model # but I assume the last 7 digits after the model numbers is what sets them apart maybe the firmware version?
Sorry I thought this was a dead deal. What type of info are you looking for I ran the crystal disk info. Everything I have run to wipe the disk or format it comes up with disk read and write errors. I have tried that on a couple of disks with the same results. Is it possible I need a different firmware version. These disks were used for a hp backup workflow. It seems like a waste to just throw these things away so any help would be very appreciated.
Thank you for the info. I was wondering if you can look at this log output and see if you can see anything that looks like it may be keeping me from formating these disks. Also how would I change any of the values the drive may have is it done with new firmware or some other way. I dont see any way to attach a file so here is the cut and past of the log. If there is any other info you need to help please let me know. Thank you for your help.
I have a SATA to USB adapter and that is about it. I can plug them in and see if Windows mounts them but that is about it. Can third party utilities check SMART data when a drive is plugged in via the adapter, if so which is a good utility or method that you use?
Crystal disk info and crystal disk Mark. Info pulls your smart data and specs, then run CD Mark to test read/write performance for any indications of mechanical issues. Takes 10 minutes tops per drive.
I am not aware that a generic USB adapter is able to check all the SMART information.
I find more convenient to connect it directly to the internal connector of the computer itself.
To manage the reliability of the hard disk, I use CrystalDiskInfo:
About CrystalDiskInfo A HDD/SSD utility software which supports a part of USB, Intel RAID and NVMe. Aoi Edition Standard Edition Shizuku Edition Kurei Kei Edition Download System Requirements OS Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11Windows Server...
CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD/SSD utility which supports S.M.A.R.T. It supports a part of external USB disks, monitoring health status and temperature, graph of S.M.A.R.T. information, control AAM/APM settings and more.
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also if its just reading the smart info off the drives i believe a number of different apps can possibly perform that. try the drive software from your drive vendor maybe ATADA SSD tools might do it? or was it samsung magician?
The apps stop showing s.m.a.r.t. data after new driver install. I never had a problem before. Like the post says if i roll back drivers everything works perfect. There must be a bug in latest software.
Almost all other drive and SSD and NVME storage tools and software i'd seen had mentioned about SMART monitoring logs and data being some sort of vulnerability where criminals could somehow predict or determine drive data or "used bits" or some sort of recovery index from the information so its advanced smart reporting features had since been disabled and only some tools may offer very limited functionality if it works at all now. Theres some chance you may not find verbose SMART data logs and reports and monitoring. Some tools previously let you download and view all SMART data. to me its all just hex and ones and zeroes everywhere so i've always ignored such features but to smelly criminals its gold. So no matter how hard you cry i dont think what you want like how it used to be will ever be the same way.
This simply does not make sense: I can read all the SMART data of the NVME that is not connected through the AMD RAID controller. It is just the driver that is buggy, as it has been stated multiple times.
Reading SMART data is essential to monitor the drive life status, its temperature and a lot of other useful data. It is possible only with administrative privileges and that fact that you don't understand it does not mean that it is not a valuable tool.
it's definitely something broken .. I'm enabling the SMART polling in the RAIDXpert2 windows app and in the next restart it's disabled again and of course I'm not getting any SMART readings, even when it states that it is enabled.
This is happening to me too in a different way. Had a x470 system with NVMe drives and a StoreMI HDD with SSD cache and SMART info was working fine on all my drives - even the joined StoreMI drives were separately show (HWinfo64) with all SMART info. I could see temps and all the other info. Get my x570 Ryzen 5000 build up and running with new drives and some from the x470 system (with know working SMART info displayed) and now all SMART info is missing. HWinfo64 debug file clearly shows Read SMART Failed on all drives. I know the drives support it. And Ive seen AMD Ryzen systems even with StoreMI showing SMART info, but now the latest drivers and chipsets - whatever AMD has done - is not allowing any SMART info. Hope they can make an update soon to correct this. I have a brand new build with expensive drives that im not sure if they are running hot or keep having read errors (I doubt they are, but still)
Any chance this can be fixed as its still broken in the latest driver ? cant even disable and re enable it will still be disabled, i sometimes just wanna see remaining life left or current drive temps, i have no way of doing that right now and its annoying
hardware sentinel is annoying app that changes things without permision i wont install that, and i do not trust it, i usually use crystaldiskinfo or hwinfo64 im currently back on older raid drivers for now.
It does not change anything, except the disk icons to reflect the disk health in Explorer but it can be easily disabled on Configuration -> Disk Control page. It does not change/modify any settings - especially if you use the portable version.
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