How to assess the health of a hard drive?

Question

Hard disks

Anamnesis:
HDD Toshiba HDWD120, bought a couple of years ago, used as a file dump. When writing files to it - downloading a movie through a torrent, it fell off. Those. Linux stopped seeing it. After the reboot, the file was written broken.

I stuck it in a screw machine. When loading Windows 7, I did a disk recovery, after which I checked the whole winch with the help of Victoria:



Question:
What threshold is considered critical for a disk?
How to evaluate in general, check its performance and assess the state?

For the sake of experiment in a Linux machine, I replaced the disk cable, but it did not help. The write disk failed again.

Answer 1

How to evaluate in general, check its performance and assess the state?

You can also check your hard drive with R.tester: https://rlab.ru/tools/rtester.html
R.tester has both automatic diagnostics and user-run tests. If you really have a "garbage dump" there, i.e. there is nothing important, then in addition to reading, you can also run a write test (overwrites everything on the disk) and look at the results. For all tests, they are available with maximum detail.
At home, the optimal check is first a full write test, then a full read test (which is read, not verify).
It's also worth taking a look at SMART. It is similar with it - the SMART parameters are used both for automatic diagnostics and are available for viewing by the user.
Also make sure that you have a power supply in order and that it has enough power for all the devices in the computer.
In general, if the disk began to behave unstable and there is nothing important there, then the best option is to replace it under warranty, if the period has not yet expired.
In any case, no important information should be stored on it.

Answer 2

1) test the disk on another machine or with another PSU.
2) unscrew the board on the screw (there is either a star or a hexagon) and clean the contacts with an eraser.
3) in the same Victoria, make a remap (do not forget to save the data).

Answer 3

Yes, just crystal disk info look smart

Answer 4

The fact that your screw falls off is bad, scanning victories (and other utilities) at the same time may not show anything critical (if the same conditions do not appear during the scan that lead to the disk being dumped), but on SMART I would drew attention. I would do the 3 points indicated by the user SOTVM , but it is not clear what you are going to remap.