How bad is my Hard Disk?

famousken · Oct 25, 2013

I just replaced my laptop's internal hard drive. Now, I am using my old drive as an external (Bought an Enclosure). Below are the attribute names wherein i get warnings.

I Used Defraggler and HDTunesPro

Reallocated Sectors Count
Raw Value: 0x0000000007FF
Real Value: 2047
Threshold: 50
Current: 1
Worst: 1
Description: Number of retired sectors: 2047
Status: The drive has damaged sectors.

Reallocated Event Count
Raw Value: 0x0000000001C6
Real Value: 454
Threshold: 0
Current: 100
Worst: 100
Description: Number of sector replacement operations: 454
Status: warning

UltraDMA CRC Error Count/ Interface CRC Error Count
Raw Value: 0x000000000004
Real Value: 4
Threshold: 0
Current: 200
Worst: 200
Description: Number of interface communication errors: 4
Status: There were communication errors. This may be caused by a damaged cable.

How bad is my Disk?

noidea_77 · Oct 25, 2013

I wouldn't use it any more. 2047 retired sectors is lot and the number will grow fast, if you write to the disk.

famousken · Oct 25, 2013

noidea_77 :

yo,

How long do you think this drive would last? I plan to use it until it dies.

noidea_77 · Oct 25, 2013

famousken :

Retired sectors means the drive has unreadable sectors. You can still write data do the disk, but when you try to read the data, the disk will tell you it is unreadable / lost and mark this sector for reallocation. Next time you write to this sector, it gets retired, but that doesn't help: the data written to it in the first place is lost! The drive is already dead! Start a disk check with he bad sector option and you will see.

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