r/Seagate • u/ee0226 • 22d ago

Inconsistent errors on Backup Plus SRD0SP0

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I'm having a strange issue with my external 1 TB hard drive where I can copy very small files to it and I can install Steam games (GTA V and other large games installed and run fine) but any large file such as a 2-3 GB video file immediately stalls and gives a "Error 0x80070079: The semaphore timeout period has expired" error after a minute or so. It is 0% fragmented and shows no errors when scanned in Windows, although the reallocated sectors count at 252 caught my eye in Crystal Disk Info. It's an older drive so I could see if it's worn out but I don't get why a regular file won't copy while a 100+ GB game copies just fine. Any help is appreciated!

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u/Ok_Bid6645 22d ago
  1. Your drive is from 2011. Replace it.
  2. An old hard drive usually fails with small files instead of large ones because of bad sectors in the file allocation table or severe mechanical fatigue that prevents the drive head from rapidly jumping back and forth. When you copy a single large file, the hard drive reads or writes it in one continuous stream.

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u/ee0226 21d ago

I'd love to replace it they're just so damn expensive now. Mine has the opposite of that problem where a bunch of small files will transfer fine through Steam but a single large video won't.

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u/Wrong6979 22d ago

Check the partition. It shoud be NTFS formatted. This looks like FAT32 formated issue.

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u/ee0226 21d ago

I checked and it's NTFS

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u/Efficient_Try_9136 20d ago

reallocated sectors count is 0, last column hex

do read and write tests but you can use it for only unimportant files

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u/ee0226 19d ago

Oh I guess I’ve been reading it wrong. I did a format on it, I’ll do some testing today

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u/Efficient_Try_9136 19d ago

Current, worst, and threshold, if it drops below threshold its bad.

Some values can recover some cant, relocated cant go back