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The question is: does the hard disk controller (and its driver) pass this command to the SSD(s) used in the system, or block it?

The problem is that some hard disk controllers (and their drivers) may block the TRIM command, and not pass it to the SSD even if TRIM is supported by the SSD. This is the same concept as with the "Acoustic management" command for hard disks which also may be blocked when attached to some hard disk controllers.

Hard Disk Sentinel checks the real usage of TRIM for each appropriate device (one-by-one). If it displays "disabled", it means there is a problem with the driver of the hard disk controller (if both the OS and SSD should support TRIM). Usually updating this driver will help. If not, using a different hard disk controller may also helpful."

HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to good

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[ 14 posts ] Previous topic Next topic AuthorMessageseed.helper Post subject: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 9:59

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Location: Portugalyesterday when i got home i was surprised to see that my old sammy was turned on but not appearing on the explorer in windows

hard disk was on in the dock ... i left it on copying files from this hard drive in the morning to my computer for backing it up files.... it seems that it got an error in the middle while copying but windows didn't show up anything

well i removed the power from the dock and plug in again and i got:

I noticed the huge increase in the write errors

than i started trying to copy my important folder and i couldn't... i noticed on the previous image that the hard drive was bad but it wasn't found any bad sectors soo i said to me lets see what i can do ( this is not a seagate DM series ... its a proper samsung HDD or i wouldn't have bought it.... )

remove the PCB from hard disk and cleaned with a rubber and i got clean contacts after that

using goodsync software i was able to copy the contents not backed up previously ( 99%) with two folders erroring E/S read error ( not much of a big deal)

teracopy and windows explorer couldn't copy anything from that hard drive i think this software cant deal with bad sectors and gets stalled...

after been able to copy my folder

i started hard disk sentinel and started an hard disk write and read test pass to see what would appear

this morning i was greated by this...

a clean green beautiful color and im almost sure will pass the test with no problem

i dont know that it was but it seems ok im prepared to give it another chance to store my data ( i like the old samsung HDDs )

is there any way to reset and get

100 Performance

100 health

??????

( im allways getting this) amd im unable to use this hard drive on my WD NAS because of smart status

can you guys help me ?

have a great weekend

hope this is easy to read

Top Spildit Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 10:27

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Location: PortugalThe only way out of this is getting your old sammy some rest and buy a new drive (even if from an old series/model) to replace it.

Sorry the drive is starting to get trouble writting data because it's heads and platters are getting old and used up.

The only way to get some more extra life out of the drive would be some sort of secret Burn-In process (that is done at factory with special code that we have).

Sure you can wipe the drive and move the damaged sectors to A-List and even merge it with the factory defects list but that will only be cosmetic, as the main degradation factor will still be there.

There is nothing that can change the fact that the drive is not as reliable as it was on the past.

If i were you i wouldn't store any important data on that drive any longer and would go and buy a new equal sammy on ebay if you like tha particular model so much.

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Regards.

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Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 10:33

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Location: PortugalHi Spildit... drive doesnt have any bad sectors detected ... i will use again to backup my data

this doesnt make sense my friend drive seems to be good ( i will use this drive as a backup from a wd 2tb drive) and the WD drtive is in perfect shape

could you please provide more tests to prove that is in shape ? im not rich to toss my good old sammy to the trash bin without any confirmation

rest my case for now looool

Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 11:00

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now testing with long generic test

Top Spildit Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 11:10

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Location: PortugalDid you drop your sammy on the past ?

Because you have G-Sense errors.

Check/replace the cable connecting the drive to the PC and or SCSI/SAS controller, as you have ultra ATA CRC errors.

Check SMART again to see if you have realocated sectors or pending sectors for relocation.

If you do all those media scan tests and the number of relocation sectors doesn't increase then the problem was most likely originated by the SCSI/SAS cotroller or cables then by the drive itself.

No matter what the fact that the problem happened on the past is a FACT that you can't change and unless you find the exact cause of it you can't never predic when/if it will happen again, because if it happened on the past chances are it will happen again soon as well, and hopefully you will not have important/un-backed up data on it if you end up with a damaged drive that can't be read at all.

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Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 11:24

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Location: Portugaldidnt drop the drive... yet...

all my sammys have g sense errors i think its a recorrent problem but never triggered a smart fail

it seems that the drive thinks itself that is toast but its not yet...

i will use this drive as my second storage drive backing a wd drive

Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 11:41

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i was using this external dock when the hard drive "failed"

the other drives are functioning fine on this external dock...

Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 16:17

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long generic pass test passed

so its really a failed smart ( software ) and not hardware

Top Spildit Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 17:07

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Location: PortugalThere in NO such thing as a failed smart (software).

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Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 7th, 2015, 17:32

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Location: PortugalOkay but hardware wise drive seems fine Spildit... I dont understand why it did this 100% --> 9% without any reason 2 corrupted files? ok it happens sometimes ...

im backing up my external wd2tb drive data to this one and i will report if write errors increase....

after generic short pass and generic long pass raw read error value 904 --> 906 and write error didnt increase

like you say if the raw values stabilize it was another thing that caused this issue

Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 8th, 2015, 1:57

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Location: Portugalremember to update now hard disk sentinel 4.50 to 4.60 and voila.... amazingly this did what i needed stop blinking red cross over this hard drive

im happy now

i will try putting the drive back on NAS just for testing if it really have a good smart internally

thanks for all the help Spildit

Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 8th, 2015, 7:18

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Location: PortugalYup drive still thinks that is bad only this hard disk sentinel is reading correctly the important values and ignoring the bad status

Top Spildit Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 8th, 2015, 10:40

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Location: Portugalseed.helper wrote:Yup drive still thinks that is bad only this hard disk sentinel is reading correctly the important values and ignoring the bad status

Let's hope that it's not the other way. If the drive still thinks it's bad then something is not right.

Just don't put data that you can't loose on it.

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Top seed.helper Post subject: Re: HD204UI is possible to reset smart status BAD? to goodPosted: March 10th, 2015, 0:48

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Location: PortugalOk already transfered 1.79tb of data to the drive and copied from the drive to see if the errors would ocour was able to read all the files wihout any error

So im happy

Thanks for the help i will use this drive as a backup

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