Review on Western Digital WD Black 1TB hard drive WD10SPSX by Micha Spodymek ᠌

For the last 10+ years, all drives have had a unified self-diagnosis system - S. M.A. R.T. (self-monitoring, analysis and reporting technology), and its operation from one model to another differs minimally. However, with this drive, I noticed two oddities in the work of SMART. First, the value of Seek Error Rate (Error rate when positioning the block of magnetic heads) of the disk began to grow immediately from the moment it was first turned on (Start_Stop_Count=1, Power_On_Hours=2, Seek_Error_Rate=9821) and has been growing continuously since then (currently Power_On_Hours = 1202 , Seek_Error_Rate = 60977). For any other HDD, this would be a sure sign that the drive is very bad, but my copy continues to work quietly and quickly. This is probably either a bug in the firmware, or some undocumented feature. The proprietary Western Digital Dashboard utility shows that the drive is healthy. Idle temp in my build = 46 degrees. Second: in addition to error counters, SMART has even more detailed disk self-tests that can be run manually or according to a schedule - a quick Short offline (usually takes 1-10 minutes depending on the disk size) and a detailed Extended offline (usually takes 15-60 minutes depending on disk size). For some unknown reason, for this 1TB SMART drive, the Extended offline test takes over 23 hours! Results - "disk in perfect order." I have no idea where these anomalies are growing from. On other disks, incl. on WD drives, I've never seen this behavior before. The disk is installed in a DELL OptiPlex 7780 monoblock as a file cleaner, it is used very rarely for writing and moderately for reading, there are no problems with cooling and vibrations. Model Family: Western Digital Black (SMR) Device Model: WDC WD10SPSX-60A6WT0 Firmware Version: 01.01A01