Faulty HDD or System?

[anonymous-user]

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[Gary C]

Who can say ?

What you can say is its probably not a head crash so the platter is probably fine and the fault was down to a bad connection.

Shows the value of backups

[Scobblelotcher]

What type of HDD is the new drive? SSD or a traditional drive?

I think either way I'd just replace the drive given the low cost of them these days rather than risk data loss and potential issues.

I wonder if the drive is SSD is there was a problem that self corrected via the disks controller. The over provisioning, ware levelling or even garbage collection functions could help (depending on brand/version etc). It's also worth pointing out that restarting SSD drives can lead to various functions being invoked depending on OS and drive type/firmware.

Modern SSD drives perform lots of different functions for endurance that result in data being moved around (like some of those listed above).

For Linux you could consider running a diagnostics tool like one listed here: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-check-...