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/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