My Nas has been unplugged for 6 months during my move. Plugged it in a few days ago and 24 hours later, my Synology alerted me that the drive was failing. Took it out, ran all the tests in kit Fox and doesn’t look good. Just wondering if there’s anything else I could do before I dispose of the drive. Thanks. (I never had a drive die before.)
Check the disk in Windows to see of it is working. Seatools can zero wipe any disk which can help recover some disks.
Thanks. I deleted the drive in windows disk management, created a simple ntfs volume and ran disk check and said it was ok.
Seatools can check the health of SC cards, SSD and hard disks alike. Use Seatools to check the disk health and it can also zero wipe storage which is helpful for hard disks as this allows the controller an opportunity to swap out a bad block or 5.
Ordinarily the error correcting codes used with modern hard disks are very robust. Still occasionally the media may have some minor flaws that make them unreliable. Hard disks eliminate these flaws transparently.
