Chazore said:
Cheers, I ran the scan and found 14 bad sectors and looking at the main grid it really isn't all that bad, out of all the green squares only 3 are red. I really want to replace the HDD anyway because it's a WD green and it's write speed is pretty slow compared to WD blue/Black models, that and the WD green is usually meant for storage instead of gaming. I've already got my eyes set on the Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5, but it hasn't really gone down that far in price with some places asking for nearly £100 with PP so I might look into another model/brand. |
As long as they aren't increasing at a rapid rate (days) and you resolve any outstanding sectors you should be good with the HDD you have. You should always backup your files anyway. Most HDD's have spare sectors to replace bad ones. 14 isn't a lot if you had this HDD for a while. Mine had 27 replaced with spare sectors, 3 uncorrectable sectors, and 3 unrepared ones, but the only way I could likely resolve them is a full format (as I already tried CHCKDSK) and it was already making ugly noises. So I decided to RMA'd it, because the HDD was only 5 months old and shouldn't be having these problems.
I've seen 240GB SSD's for around $100 on Newegg. The 240 GB will give both faster performance and more space from what I've read on the benchmarks. You might want to look into them. I will be ordering myself a 240 GB 250 EVO whenever the money goes through to be refunded for this HDD.
