SSD - New SSD with Bad Sector??
Trying to back up C Drive onto SSD using the USB port. I', tried with and without using the "Create Acronis Survival Kit". Both times it claims Bad Sectors. I used chkdsk, Windows 10 Pro, and it's clean. I also did a surface check using MiniTool Partition Wizard 12. It checks good. I also used 3 different SSD-Samsung 850Pro.
Bob
Looks like a manufacturing defect. You would opt for a replacement.
If this is the case, it really seems like the SSD might be at fault here, although you could still try it out with a different cable and a different USB port (or even better - with a different computer), to see if the issue still persists. If the same thing happens again, I'd try to RMA it if I were you.
Amerifax > go to https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_professional.php and download Hard Disk Sentinel Pro trial. I've used this app for years with high success and highly recommend it. It has 6 different test you can use to test a drive. Some test will destroy the contents and others will not, choose wisely.
After installing,
- in the main window click on the drive you want to test
- In the menu click Disk
- Click Surface Test in the dropdown
- In the new window click the dropdown for Test Type, you have four levels you can select as in the following. Note it identifies which will destroy the data. The test that destroys the data are good for testing new drives before putting them in production or drives where you have copied the data to another drive. The help file will give you more details for each test. I use #6 a lot, especially if the drive has data I want to keep. I just used #3 on a new drive that was going to be put into production.
- Read test
- WRITE test (DESTRUCTIVE - all data will be removed)
- WRITE + read test (DESTRUCTIVE - all data will be removed)
- Read + WRITE + read test (refresh data area)
- Reinitialize disk surface (DESTRUCTIVE - all data will be removed)
- Disk repair (read test with sector repair)
Some test will take longer, e.g. read is the quickest whereas Read/write or Write/Read will take longer. If you have bad sectors the app will move the data (example the Read + Write or Disk repair + others) to a good sector and mark the old sector bad. Depending on how difficult it is to move the data from the bad area will determine how long it will take. The recent drive I tested with level 3 took about 3 hours for a new 1 TB SSD drive. A week ago I tested a 500GB 2.5" mechanical drive that I suspected had bad sectors (I used level 6) and it took about 3 days to run. Obviously it had some difficult problems. Another 1 TB SSD drive that was the boot drive in a laptop took over a day to run. This SSD had some really weird issues and with this test I was able to get SanDisk (I do not recommend SanDisk) to replace the drive but it took SanDisk almost a month to get me the new SSD.
I'm assuming you are running Windows.
You can test a drive while doing other work on your PC, for most disk. If you have some application that locks the drive, first you need to stop the application and any services it has running then most likely you can test the drive and do other work at the same time.
Attached is what it looks like on my desktop. Because it monitors the drive health and will issue a warning if a limit has been hit (low health, high temp, too little space, etc,) it runs 100% of the time on my PC.
Does not look like the image made it, I'll try again.
