![]() ![]() Water-resistant and shock-proof, the MiniStation Extreme NFC from Buffalo isn't indestructible, but it's a nice change from some of the dangerously flimsy external hard drives available. ![]() The icing on the cake comes in the form of ADATA's three-year warranty. Super useful when taking the drive with you in a backpack (opens in new tab). Its "wrap-around" system means the cable is always with the drive so it doesn't tangle or get in the way. The firm provides this model in four colors which makes separating projects by color-coded drives a breeze, believe me, you don't want labels in an outdoor environment. It’s fast with a 5Gbps USB 3.1 interface and with its 4TB capacity it’ll suit the needs (and then some) of the average mobile worker on the go. The firm went above and beyond to protect HDD internals with a silicone casing, triple-layered construction, and vibration sensing technology so it can withstand falls from 1.5m. Sounds good? Well, that's the kind of certification rating the ADATA HD 710 Pro packs up its sleeve. That's why if you use external drives while outdoors a regular external hard drive becomes a risky proposition.Īn IP68-rated device can withstand dust, dirt, and sand, and can be submerged up to 1.5m underwater for 30 minutes. Just exposing it to the elements can ruin your data and your day. Sudden shocks, especially while in use, can cause the head to crash or damage the platter. Most of the failures can be attributed to damaged disk surfaces caused by physical shocks being hit, falling over, or being dropped. All your data can be inaccessible in a second just by a mishap. If you want to see 100% perfect status (even on a failing disk drive where data loss happens) - then you can use/trust other tools.īut if you want to be notified about the problems, degradations and want to know when you can expect troubles - then you can use Hard Disk Sentinel.With tiny moving parts, Hard disk drives ( HDDs (opens in new tab)) are fragile. Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> How to repair hard disk drive? How to eliminate displayed hard disk problems?Īnd if you use Report menu -> Send test report to developer option, I can check the actual situation and advise with step-by-step details.īut if other tool shows perfect status for your SSD which already reported issues (especially serious issues which caused so low health and problems need to be fixed by the Disk Repair test) that may mean that the tool simply does not report possible problems/degradations well. Now, as the status is stabilized/fixed, in Hard Disk Sentinel you can also manually reset the health: by clearing the error counters, you can acknowledge the reported problems, delete them from the text description (and restore the health too) - so then Hard Disk Sentinel will only report possible new issues, degradations - if there will be. prepare for planned replacement (backup/image and replace) until it's too late both to minimise downtime and minimise/avoid data corruption / data loss be notified about possible new issues/problems (even minor ones - which could be completely ignored by other tools) I'm happy to hear that (at least) it both increased the attention to the problems and the Disk Repair test also helped to stabilize problems, to fix issues.īut even if we fixed the problems and stabilized the operation of the SSD, we can't say AUTOMATICALLY that "everything is PERFECT" now.Ĭonsidering the issues (which could be serious if you see as low health as 14%) we'd need to be careful and both perform monitoring/testing exactly to This is why Hard Disk Sentinel does exactly what it should: detect and report problems related to the disk drive. So generally we can't say that the drive is perfect. Many other tools follow this direction - making questionable if they may be able to report problems at all.Īs you wrote, your SSD already experienced/reported problems. Because of its nature, they may not sensitive enough to report possible problems and happily show (almost) failing drives as perfect. This is especially common for manufacturer-specific tools: they have only one purpose: to minimise warranty replacement of hard disk drives / SSDs. While I do not know the particular situation (as the image does not appear), generally it is common that different software/tools report different health for a hard disk or SSD. I'd suggest to please check: Support -> Frequently Asked Questions -> Why other software displays different health? Which is correct?
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