Crystaldiskinfo 05 reallocated sectors count

Big Jon

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Nov 17, 2013
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I also have a 3 year old Acer laptop with a Toshiba 610Gb hard disk. Intel RST tells me that the HD is 'at risk' and Crystal gives me a 'Bad' rating and all other buttons are green. Disk temp is 34 degrees.
Current is 18, Worst is 18, Threshold is 50 and the Raw Values are 0000000007DC.

The laptop also takes about 15 minutes at time to boot up fully.

Time to panic and get a new HD ?

Many thanks in advance and I appreciate your time.
 
Solution
Back up your data ASAP. A high reallocated sector count is a good indicator for drive demise. I would consider this an opportunity -- SSDs will have some great prices over the next few weeks.