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Is there any harm in frequently parking disk heads? How to define it?
There is a hard disk, HGST, for data, rarely used, several times a day. Due to the constant noise, I set a shutdown in the screw power circuit after 2 minutes, so it has been working for half a year (it is ~ 5 in total). Yesterday I noticed that he began to often click his heads with a small load (with a significant one - no), while there were no problems during operation, access delays or errors.
SMART in the photo (very strange data, about the same starts / stops - not realistic at all, the temperature is nonsense), the checkdisk did not find any problems (screen for both sections). True, the second (closest to the end of the disk) section was checked with pauses and plugs and increased noise from the disk
. So the question is - is there any harm from parking heads? If so, what might the clicks hint at? What to expect from a disk now and how it is possible to prolong its life?
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> is there any harm from parking heads?
of course have. all that energy that goes into parking heads could go to something else. lots of electricity goes out.
> what clicks can hint at?
among other things, they may hint at a problem with the power of the hard drive. and may not hint.
the smart disk is in order, and divination by clicks and increased noise is a failed idea from the very beginning.
> what to expect from a disk now and how it is possible to prolong its life?
expect the drive to fail at any moment. just like any other disc. to prolong the life of the disk, it should be removed from the PC (do not forget to turn off the power supply of the PC before this!) and put in a dark, dry place with a temperature not lower than +8°C and not higher than +35°C.
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