Chkdsk And Sshd Drives

Against my better judgement as it proved, I bought a 1tb Hitachi SSHD for my laptop which had been a bit slow to boot. It didn't make any appreciable difference and the drive soon got relegated to a backup role. Recently it's started generating errors when imaging and atm I'm trying to recover it with chkdsk /r. That's running but incredibly slowly - I doubt it will be able to complete. Would the fact that it is SSHD bother chkdsk? Is there another diskcheck/repair utility that might do a bit better?

 

No. The SSD part of a SSHD is just the buffer. It has nothing to do with the actual disk platters.

Not really. But if you use the diagnostics from Hitachi/WD and it fails, then they will not question issuing a RMA.

BTW, you say against your better judgement, not sure why you would say that. There is nothing inherently inferior with SSHDs vs conventional HDs and generally, they provide a nice compromise when the budget does not allow for a SSD. But if you were expecting a significant performance increase, then you were misinformed. You get some (with disk intensive tasks) but not a lot.

 

At the 15th attempt to read the Hitachi serial number warranty check captcha it seems it was nearly out of warranty when I bought it. Shouldn't be as I've only had it 20 months - obviously I was sent old stock by Amazon. Oh well, I'll just have to see what is recoverable.

 

Wow! That's pretty sad. You would think Amazon would have such a quick turnover, there would be no such thing as "old stock". Note most have the date of manufacture on a label somewhere - though it may not be obvious. A Seagate here says Date code: 11027 which I believe means the 27th day in 2011. An Samsung says 2009.09.

Are you sure you bought this as a "new" drive?