Yes, I do autodecrypt and shrink, and I always simply delete the original files, so unfortunately I can't test them
Here is the latest HDD, not sure if anything is obvious, I still haven't learnt what to look out for!
SMART Status PASSED
Model Family Seagate Pipeline HD 5900.2
Device Model ST3500312CS
Serial Number 9VV54HYN
LU WWN Device Id 5 000c50 02d8dbbda
Firmware Version SC13
User Capacity 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Size 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is 8
ATA Standard is ATA-8-ACS revision 4
Local Time is Sat Nov 17 11:02:40 2012 GMT
SMART support is Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is
Enabled
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 167663104 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always -
3 Spin_Up_Time PO---- 0 097 097 000 Pre-fail Always -
4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 2872 098 098 020 Old_age Always -
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 0 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always -
7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 90110545 079 060 030 Pre-fail Always -
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 4541 095 095 000 Old_age Always -
10 Spin_Retry_Count PO--C- 0 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always -
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 1436 099 099 020 Old_age Always -
184 End-to-End_Error -O--CK 0 100 100 099 Old_age Always -
187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
189 High_Fly_Writes -O-RCK 25 075 075 000 Old_age Always -
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O---K 55 045 043 045 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW
194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 55 055 057 000 Old_age Always -
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered -O-RC- 167663104 049 040 000 Old_age Always -
197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Always -
198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----C- 0 100 100 000 Old_age Offline -
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -OSRCK 0 200 200 000 Old_age Always -
Self-test logs
No.DescriptionStatusRemainingWhenFirst Error LBA
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3580 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2786 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1517 -