Doubt HDDs and corrupt files

[cloudff7]

I use HDDs for archiving
HDDs purchased on AliExpress, do the data recorded on them easily become corrupted if I do not perform a Full Scan Surface with Victoria to find out the true health of the drive? I only performed the QuickScan Surface of Victoria and there were no errors
When I copied the files to the HDD, I then tested them with Winrar and they were intact, but do they easily become corrupted in unused storage or the next time I power them on?

[dan]

How is this any different from this earlier topic of yours?

Doubt HDDs buy in Aliexpress test health

I have two Kesu brand HDDs purchased on Aliexpress with HGTS and WD HDDs, CrystalDiskInfo says that their health is good but I suspect that the Chinese reset SMART or changed the firmware to not show bad sector and badblock errors. A quick scan with some HDD testing software, for example Victoria, HDTune, Seatools, HD Sentinel, can reveal the real health condition of the HDDs and if they are good for archiving?

or this one?

Doubt bad sectors HDDs

Files are stored on the HDD with some kind of ECC built in; HDDs are divided into sectors which host the data, plus a small reserve of spare sectors; when the HDD detects[1] part of a sector is going bad, it re-allocates it to a spare sector. Eventually, the spare sectors get all used and the drive is no longer able to cope with failing sectors. A failed sector does not corrupt data per se, but is generally not able to properly function anymore (hence damaging/corrupting files or, more likely,…

How many topics are you going to start asking the same question?

[cloudff7]

doesn’t answer my question

[dan]

If your question wasn’t answered in either of those topics, continue the discussion there. Closing this one.