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Crystal Disk Info: "Total Host Writes" shows two distinct values

Crystal Disk Info shows two distinct values for Total Host Writes on my SSD when hovering over it, one of which is less than the other; which number of writes is correct?
mbaki
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Is my hard disk about to fail? (Tests seem inconsistent)

I have a secondary hard drive in my Windows 10 machine which has not been given any problems until it suddenly disconnected today. After a shutdown and restart, everything appears to be working and the only error/warnings messages in the event log…
sgmoore
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Is it possible to run CrystalDiskInfo from the command line/powershell?

I want to be able to run CrystalDiskInfo from the cmd to save and analyze the data. I want to do it in a way where I can automatically run CrystalDiskInfo on a remote device and send commands based on the data output. Also, I want to do it in a way…
Sasha
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High read error rate for a Seagate 14TB HDD, is this normal range?

This is a new HDD, but it looks like the read error rate is too high. It is higher than the threshold, but not sure if this a normal for a new HDD. Should I request for a replacement?
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Enhance CrystalDiskInfo from the command line/powershell?

Is it possible to run CrystalDiskInfo from the command line/powershell? that script above is very supportive! any chance to split the report into separate files for each DRIVE (file name = serial number). I tried that, but failed with splitting the…
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Crystal Disk Info, SSD. NTFS corrupted

My 128GB SSD is configured in RAID1. According to the technical specs it has 100TBW. Total host writes is now more then 150 000GB. The filesystem is getting corrupted all the time. I think this SSD is not designed for such write output. Average…
Jonas
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How should I interpret this "Bad disk" report by CrystalDiskInfo?

Today, I have gone through the process of individually plugging in all my ten current backup disks and checked them with CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.8 x64 in order to determine whether I dare to keep using them or if they are "singing on their last verse",…
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Get SSD Host Writes in Windows via Command Line

In CrystalDiskInfo, I can see how many GB have been written to an SSD. This is helpful to monitor its usage over time: If possible, I would like to run a script automatically that pulls this information and keeps a log of it over time in a csv…
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CrystalDiskInfo claims my disk's health status is bad while Hard Disk Sentinel Pro claims my disk's health status is perfect. Who is right?

I have a external hard drive (Western Digital 5TB USB; WD50NDZW-11A8JS0). CrystalDiskInfo claims my disk's health status is bad while Hard Disk Sentinel Pro claims my disk's health status is perfect. Looks like they disagree on current and worse…
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Unexpected Power Loss Count meaning in SMART

I have bought a brand new HP SSD, I use it for backups and do that by opening the case and install it as a secondary drive. Recently, I ran CrystalDiskInfo and found out a really weird indicator AE - Unexpected Power Loss Count to be equal to 0x18…
user10191234
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Disk Malfunctioned But They All Disappeared - Is This Disk Still Trustworthy?

I have encountered a situation I have never seen before. I recently bought an Seagate One Touch 5TB external HDD, and to ensure it would store data properly, I tried to run chkdsk. However before that, I have observed the following: I tried to read…
Mango
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Trying to understand if this old Toshiba HDD is usable

I just salvaged this very old Toshiba HDD (from 2014). I installed it in my PC, formatted and ran a CrystalDiskInfo. It shows very little usage and is marked as healthy, but all the parameters seem through the roof. I don't really understand what…
A Name You Can't Remember
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NVMe PCIe SSD using 2 lanes instead of 4

I recently installed an WD Blue SN570 500GB NVMe SSD in my HP laptop and I did a benchmark test in crystal disk software and got 1700MBps read speed but this SSD supports 3500MBps. When I checked in crystal disk info software I see laptop is using…
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Why does CrystalDiskInfo show "B1 Vendor Specific" as a bad disk health indicator?

I have bad performance when processing large files and I ran CrystalDiskInfo and it shows disk health status as "bad" with row ID=B1 and "Vendor Specific" marked in red. I tried looking at S.M.A.R.T attributes lists but nowhere does it list "B1"…
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Two SMART properties check programs, different results of End-to-End error

Take a look at SMART-ID value D8: Which one of the two is correct and is the current state really critical? The RAW values are NOT different: Crystal reads 11h = 17 Passmark reads 17 = 11h
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