How to handle reallocated sectors on a WD Black SSD drive?
I was honestly losing my mind with this one. According to Disk Health Report 02 on Windows 11, CrystalDiskInfo showed the reallocated sector count fluctuating between 5 - 9 times, which is why the loading bar would just randomly stop. At first, I wasted time running SFC scans and found several corrupted DLLs, but fixing drivers didn't help. I decided to run MemTest86+ on memory addresses 0x7C - 0x91 to rule out RAM interference, then used BurnInTest to force a write verification on the storage volume. After the cleanup, read latency converged to 0.24s - 0.32s, and the controller vibration felt crisp again. But after three reboots, I noticed that once the ambient temp hits 40℃, the sectors still glitch slightly. The physical wear on this drive is irreversible; just back up your saves and pray.
