I have an SSD, and a 1TB HDD in my desktop. My hardware tester shows me that the HDD, which I use mostly for storage, has: Shock Events HDD: 4 I "googled" that, but could not find any really informative explanation... What does that mean? Thank you
It usually means that the HDD detected a strong vibration while it was working and it quickly parked the head assembly to avoid damage. High amount of shock events usually are a sign of poor handling of the HDD (more common on laptops). That information alone is not a sign of any damage to the HDD
It could also be related to stream heat laptops are notorious for this sense they don't have enough space for heat to disperse.
My bad, but even in a desktop you could have heating issues make sure all your fans are working i don't know what case you are using some lack fans and ventilation vents.
What is hard drive shock? Hard disk drives are mechanical devices and are susceptible to damage from physical shock. One type of physical shock, called operating shock, occurs when the disk is in operation. During operation, the drive head is typically over the drive platters reading and writing data.....hope that helps.
Thanks, but was the logical conclusion I came to, but that explains nothing. Its like saying: My car has three scratches... The question is: What are the consequences of 4 shocks? Do I need to replace it, or suffer loss of access? And as this is the only HDD testsoftware that detected this, is it only just another of these unnecessary notifications, like Kasperky telling me that I have 17 security problems, when not a single one of them really mattered and I wasted many hours checking each one out? I asked because my experience with one these harddrives has been that I could no longer access the data on it, because it had not been shut down properly after the last use. In the intelligent world of sophisticated digitalisation this meant that the data was of course completely uncorrupted, but the design of a HDD meant that it was totally impossible to get beyond the blocking, and no software exists that can get beyond it.
in my experience does are the sign of a falling HDD thats why you should always make frequent backups to another emergency drive or the cloud to be on the safe side.