I have no idea how it did. I thought it was dead a year or so ago. I have erased it a zillion times and each time it would fail to recognize as a drive. For some reason I decided erasing it a bunch recently and now it has recognized as a drive again. Now, I don't know if this is temporarily or not. I know in the past one day it stopped working and I lost all the data on it a year or so ago. It could easily do that again. I'm just dumb founded that it's working at all now. I came close to tossing this out a year ago.

Also, for some reason maybe inflation related the prices of portable drives are no longer respectable prices. I probably paid 60 bucks for it brand new because I would never buy a used portable or backup drive. I believe now these same drives brand new are close to 90 bucks or so on ebay.

You should have recycled this drive already, and should still recycle it now. Mostly-broken storage media doesn't magically become safe to put things on again.

Thanks for that advice but I'm still going to use it again as a backup device since I'm not going to pay 90 dollars for a portable drive. The prices are outrageous right now. Hopefully things change in 2025 for the better. I want to pay less for stuff again.

Try running the drive through CrystalDiskInfo.

S.M.A.R.T. is not bullet-proof but gives some ideas on the state of the drive.

Julien

If I do this test and it does detect something wrong with it. Will it mess up the hard-drive or just inform me that there's an issue and it won't mess it up? I know in the past when this drive stopped working I tried to repair it in Windows and that's when it erased all my data on it.

It only read SMART data and gives a diagnostic.

=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis_and_Reporting_Technology

Julien

It rated my Seagate 2tb Firecude 530 as 96 percent good. Is this bad? Why isn't it 97-100 percent? Is it because I must have had several rewrites that lowered the percentage?

This is your 2GB internal NVMe drive.

You need to plug your WD 4TB drive first...

Julien

Thanks, I know that. I'm asking if my main ssd drive is healthy enough or is there a concern with it being around 37/38c and being only 96 percent good? How hot is too hot for an ssd or is that normal temperature? Not going to be able to test my portable drive out for awhile because there's a crazy rodent that has a trap stuck to it in my bedroom and I am afraid of it. It's moving around my room. I have to wait until it passes away. I even have another mouse trap. I don't even know if this thing is a Mouse or a Squirrel. I hope it's not a squirrel because if it is that means it's probably pissed off because that Mouse Trap won't kill it. I'm scared..

Thought the tail might just be the giveaway?

Awful News!!! It says the hard-drive has issues. Now I'm going to take the files off it and I guess I have to do something impossible and try to repair it. Is there software out there that will repair it? I'm too poor to afford another one and I'm upset with Western Digital selling me this Junk that no longer works properly.

Pretty bad, don't trust this drive for anything important.

If you're still under warranty (since purchased new), contact WD or whoever sold it to you and ask for a replacement.

Julien

There's no software that will repair failing hardware.

Yeah there's no warranty. I bought brand new on ebay awhile ago like a year or year and half ago. I'm mad... I don't understand why in the year 2024 why we don't have an affordable non-mechanical hard-drive for backups for large files. Probably because they mass produces these mechanical drives.