Both hwinfo64 and Seatools reported and increasing number of bad sectors, and read-writes became near impossible

Anyway if the HDD health and performance of my hard drive is still 100% and without bad sectors after 5 years (starting from May 2015) I would rerate my review of this to 5 stars.-----------------------------------------------------------------------CrystalDiskMark 5.1.2 x64 (C) 2007-

There are no issues in the SMART data whatsoever like bad sectors

The 3 TB is a large capacity so you have to be careful not to leave viruses crawling for long in your hard drive as they can create bad sectors, and try not to shake the HDD while running may cause failure or data damageThe HDD

First started disconnecting until power was recycled, now there are thousands of bad sectors

Now it is a paperweight with 25605 bad sectors that can't retain any data without crashing

Bought both from amazon warehouse deals, the first one I had bought when I reached at around a bit past half I have started to get lone bad sectors and Synology NAS has reported that the drive has crashed

A year and a half later I got 2000 more bad sectors on the same disk

No bad sectors or any issue for 7 months 24/7 use .

Never had a bad sector or other issues

One failed after 2 years by suddenly getting a ton of bad sectors

Just had one fail after 4 years after it started getting bad sector reports in my Synology Diskstation

Luckily SeaTools for DOS was able to repair some bad sectors in Feb when it first

No bad sectors or performance variance from HDD to HDD!

S.M.A.R.T failing and drive crash with over eight thousand bad sectors and went up to around sixteen thousand

and it's got bad sectors

They worked fine for a couple of months... but then one got 22 bad sectors at the same time

Found bad sectors early on, and within less than a year of use and I just got the click of death last night.

Details: S.M.A.R.T. indicates over 20k bad sectors

The drive this one replaced (out of warranty) started throwing SMART errors, reporting bad sectors, and died

Had a few (minor) bad sector error causing slowdowns after 1 year , when 2months short of 2 years the bad sectors spike up to 2112 causing 1MB/s read write rates

and it came out to be that the hard drive is failing or bad sectors

It's around 20,000 power on hours according to CrystalDiskInfo with no bad sectors

2T is a lot of data and works well for me

Oh thou pile O crap

It is recognized by Windows Device Manager but Disk Management can't do anything because of an i/o error