Got this external hdd used. It looked okay apart from the splinter/whatever

dunno myself man but hope someone can help you

god bless

yo dude, like >>59912562 , i also am not sure what to make of it. but im sure fellow anons here will help you out. keep your head up

>>59912231
I'd like to offer some positive advice, but these are uncertain times, and, well, I just don't know the answer. Chin up, lad, I'm certain someone here will help you.

>>59912231
Get HD Tune and do a deep sector check, if it shows nothing it's safe. Also check SMART

>>59912231
fuuuuck dood, that scar looks deep. the platter will start skipping when it reaches that point, stand it on it's side and measure how far the scratch is from the bottom, convert that into a decimal and then conver the the decimal into a fraction. that is the percentage of the drive you can fill up before you will get errors. Convert the fraction back into a decimal, add 00 to the end of the hdd storage ie its
550gb, make it 55000, multiply that by the decimal, then divide by 100 to get the percentage in gb.

>>59912735
>>>59912231 (OP)
>I'd like to offer some positive advice, but these are uncertain times, and, well, I just don't know the answer. Chin up, lad, I'm certain someone here will help you.

Let me introject: A drive can be brused from dropping while it may reduce its useful life by 50%. Not to worry, in 3 years, a drive 4x the size will be 1/2 as cheap. so run it as a main drive for a few years, then rip it out, and use it as a scratch drive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_monkey