The drive has been only been powered on and used for read over the last 3+ years. CrystalDiskInfo reports it’s bad but CrystalDiskMark shows decent read/write speeds. Only wrote to it in the very beginning when I dumped a lot of archives into it. Otherwise, very few actual write cycles which is making me think it’s still ok to use. However, this isn’t a NAS drive and is consumer-grade bought many years ago.
there’s pending and uncorrectable sectors, stop using it. is this an external drive? considering the read error rate it might be caused by a cable issue, or possibly even the power source.
back in the days when i had no drives i’d zerofill the whole drive and perform a bad sector check, then partition it so that the bad sectors are skipped then use the remaining parts. i don’t recommend doing this if you can afford proper replacements though, and it’s also very likely to get worse over time.
Yes, it’s an external drive. Specifically WD MyBook
Commenter didn’t say it, but also the IO board may be bad too. Drive may be fine if you crack it open and treat it as an internal drove. (Note you may be forced to reformat it so the data would be lost, but functionally it might be fine)