Hard drive dying?

[neonplanet40]

Hi Folks, Currently getting errors with my 3TB Western Digital Red drive.

Uttorrent says " error: the drive cannot find the sector requested"

Now, my first thought - the drive is dying (its only about 6 months old).

So I ran Western Digital Data Lifeguard on the drive. Both the quick test and the long 5-6hr extended test.

Both tests passed with no errors.

So my question is, is my drive dying? If so, how can these tests not pick anything up and how can I return it if the drive passes every time?

If the drive isn't dying, what's going on?!

Haha, any help appreciated. 

[abaxas]

If you are using a modern version of utorrent, it's garbage and spyware/adware infested.

Installed an older verison.

[neonplanet40]

I am using an older version that doesn't have all the added stuff. It's been working for ages. This is only a recent problem

[peterb]

What does the SMART data say? Other thing is check the drive data and power cables.

[neonplanet40]

I am using the had in my hp gen 8. Because you have to use the hp storage array, I have found that I can't access the smart data on HD tune etc.

[peterb]

Ah, tricky. Problem then is if you take the drive out, you risk breaking the array and having to rebuild it, not good with an iffy drive.

So probably best to replace, then investigate it afterwards. If it's OK, keep it for non-essential stuff, if it is bad, well, I don't need to spell it out!

[GoNz0]

open HP smart storage admin, generate a array diagnostic report. If you only have single drive raid 0 you can reboot into safe mode then swap to AHCI mode to get a proper smart report.

[neonplanet40]

I'll have a fiddle tomorrow. I have three drives installed. All as separate drives.

[GoNz0]

Same setup as me then, I use server 2012 and rebooting into safe mode before swapping from the b120i to AHCI allows it to boot again, the drives show up as a normal drive then, same with the boot one. once you have done tinkering remove the safe mode flag. Unless you stick to AHCI but it can cause fan speed issues if a drive has no temp sensor

[neonplanet40]

How do you swap to ACHI mode? (Noob here . . . )

[GoNz0]

it's one of the 1st options in the bios, if not the 1st. storage controllers or something. google how to enable the b120i if needs be as I can't reboot the box as it is busy