Hi,
Having some troubles with one (or maybe more) of my hard disks, but I'm a little confused interpreting the S.M.A.R.T. results.
I have 3 disks, C: is an SSD which has no problems, then 2 storage drives D: and E:.
E: is a 1TB Seagate drive which I installed as a media drive, no problems (I hope?).
D: is a 750GB Seagate drive which came with the computer. I've recently had the "Windows has detected a hard disk problem" error message numerous times in relation to this drive.
I'm not worried about losing data as everything is backed up to a NAS, plus everything important is also on the E:; however from all the research I've done it looks like my drive is doomed and I need to get myself a replacement.
What confuses me is I have used CrystalDisk and HDDScan which both report all good apart from Reallocated Sectors Count. Under this, D: has a "Bad" in CrystalDisk and a scary red cross in HDDScan, but it has a value of 23 when the threshold is 36. From my understanding of reallocated sectors less is certainly better, and this drive seems to be below the threshold? What am I misunderstanding?
In contrast the E: is reporting a caution against reallocated sectors count, but the value is 88? This is way over the threshold of 36, and yet it's apparently better than D:?
Also I tried these programs on another PC with a WD HD, which showed a value of 200 under reallocated sectors and a threshold of 140 - but the drive health was perfect!
Please can someone bring me up to speed on what these results mean?
Many thanks.
Edit: Screenshots of CrystalDisk:
Having some troubles with one (or maybe more) of my hard disks, but I'm a little confused interpreting the S.M.A.R.T. results.
I have 3 disks, C: is an SSD which has no problems, then 2 storage drives D: and E:.
E: is a 1TB Seagate drive which I installed as a media drive, no problems (I hope?).
D: is a 750GB Seagate drive which came with the computer. I've recently had the "Windows has detected a hard disk problem" error message numerous times in relation to this drive.
I'm not worried about losing data as everything is backed up to a NAS, plus everything important is also on the E:; however from all the research I've done it looks like my drive is doomed and I need to get myself a replacement.
What confuses me is I have used CrystalDisk and HDDScan which both report all good apart from Reallocated Sectors Count. Under this, D: has a "Bad" in CrystalDisk and a scary red cross in HDDScan, but it has a value of 23 when the threshold is 36. From my understanding of reallocated sectors less is certainly better, and this drive seems to be below the threshold? What am I misunderstanding?
In contrast the E: is reporting a caution against reallocated sectors count, but the value is 88? This is way over the threshold of 36, and yet it's apparently better than D:?
Also I tried these programs on another PC with a WD HD, which showed a value of 200 under reallocated sectors and a threshold of 140 - but the drive health was perfect!
Please can someone bring me up to speed on what these results mean?
Many thanks.
Edit: Screenshots of CrystalDisk:
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