Drive corruption issue

[freaknik]

Hey my drive that I have my library on is a 2 tb external drive.

I went to the pc to copy a new movie to the drive and when I click to open it an error says drive corrupt.

So I look in event viewer and it has an error about mft table and says to run chkdsk.

After 16.92 hours and a report of no bad clusters or bad files, the drive is now working.

Beyond backing it up, is it really broken? It’s not that old maybe 3/4 years but it’s on all the time 24/7.

Is there anything that can cause this other than faulty hardware? Seems weird.

Edit: added event viwer

Event 55

A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume E:.

A corruption was found in a file system index structure. The file reference number is 0x5000000000005. The name of the file is "\". The corrupted index attribute is ":$I30:$INDEX_ALLOCATION".

Event 98

Volume E: (\Device\HarddiskVolume3) needs to be taken offline to perform a Full Chkdsk. Please run "CHKDSK /F" locally via the command line, or run "REPAIR-VOLUME <drive:>" locally or remotely via PowerShell.

[atc98092]

Sounds like chkdsk did make a repair. Most likely in the master table, not with a specific file, since it didn't report any bad ones.

However, perhaps it's time to replace it anyway. I just had a drive fail on my last week, and no luck with chkdsk fixing it. Fortunately I was able to remount it just long enough to see the folder structure, so I knew what I had to re-rip. This disk only had TV shows on it, so a snapped a picture of the folders for each series and now I'm ripping them all to a new hard drive.

Since my media PC is on 24/7, I expect the drives to not last a real long time. I can't say how old this particular one is, but 3-4 years is probably likely. Since I don't want to spend the money for a RAID5 array, I just live with needing to occasionally replace a drive and rerip the contents.

[freaknik]

Cool I'll get a replacement then. Luckily I don't have to re rip anything because I back it up to a 5tb drive that stays not plugged in. I'm sure that is quite time consuming. I wish I had a bluray drive to rip blurays with. Thanks for the advice, the drive is working fine for the time being. fwiw

[atc98092]

Yeah, I'd need more than 20 TB of backup space, and while hard drives aren't particularly expensive, there are other things I'd rather spend a few hundred on.