What might've caused my backup drive to crash?


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This morning I woke up to find that my backup drive had failed. I unplugged it and plugged it back in, and Windows said there was a problem with the drive, and offered to scan & repair it, which it successfully did. It is a 2TB Seagate One Touch HDD SCSI Drive.

Now I'm wondering what might've caused that to happen. I realize there are thousands of reasons, but this drive is less than a year old, and showed no signs of wearing out before this happened.

I was downloading the files of one of my websites when it crashed. The download was expected to take 8 hours or so, so I let it run through the night. Could it be just a matter of making the drive work steady for so long? I'm concerned that I might need to replace it, which would suck.
 

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Mybe you should check the drive with Seatools.
 

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Run these 3:
Rich (BB code): 
DiskParInfo​
-> Download from BSOD Repository
-> Part 2-4 [4]


SeaTools​
-> Download from Seagate
   -> Run: Long Generic Test
   -> Screenshot the results and paste here
       -> ElevenForum Tutorial
[edit: TenForums tutorial removed because it is a wrong tutorial.]


Hard Disk Sentinel​
-> Download
   -> Screenshot and paste here:
       -> Overview
       -> Temperature
       -> SMART

Note that you need to test only the drive that is mentioned.
 

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At least it's under warranty.
 

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