S.M.A.R.T. Drive Failure HWiNFO64 MX100

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So HWiNFO is telling me that i have a drive failure, i.e. under smart it has the row 'Drive Failure' and then 'Yes' in red. Worried that i might be about to lose everything, should I back up, is this a false alarm? thanks for any answers.
 
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OK, go here:

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

Download the latest version, standard edition portable (i.e. the ZIP file). Then disable your other hardware monitoring software and run that, then you can check the SMART report in raw format and it should highlight the attribute that is flagging as failure.

If it's a re-allocated sector, which I am guessing is the most likely. Then don't be too concerned on an SSD (different story on a HDD). If the reallocated sectors keep increasing significantly then be concerned then. But if you do a spot of google research you will see that SMART attribute on SSD's is actually part of the wear levelling and self diagnosis of the drive. It's identified a memory block it can't use and...
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back it up first, then look into if it's a false alarm or not. If you have irreplaceable files/data, its better to be safe then sorry.

You can downloads Seagate/western digital tools that can scan your drive and provide you with a diagnosis (if its an HDD)
 
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OK why does it say you have a pending failure? See you've put MX100 in your title so I assume you mean a Crucial MX100 SSD? See I have an old Samsung 460 SSD that is an early generation beast, this has had a SMART error for about a year now, but it's for a re-allocated sector. Bad on a HDD not so much of an issue on an SSD because they are designed to work this way as they age.

What does the SMART report actually say? What variable has it flagged?
 
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Thanks for the quick answer. My drive is a Crucial MX100 512GB. Do you know if there is any software for this?
 
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I do not know. All that it is telling me (i have looked for where it might tell me more) is that on the row drive failure it has 'yes' in HWiNFO. The program is also telling me that i have 100% drive life remaining, which i would assume on the writes that it has done... I think that the SSD is rated for something like 300TB write. I have definitely done more than 1% of this, so it should not say 100%, so I am wondering if there is some misdiagnosis going on. I am going to try to find some other programs to tell me what the smart report actually says. I have had the drive about 8 months.
 
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OK, go here:

http://crystalmark.info/download/index-e.html

Download the latest version, standard edition portable (i.e. the ZIP file). Then disable your other hardware monitoring software and run that, then you can check the SMART report in raw format and it should highlight the attribute that is flagging as failure.

If it's a re-allocated sector, which I am guessing is the most likely. Then don't be too concerned on an SSD (different story on a HDD). If the reallocated sectors keep increasing significantly then be concerned then. But if you do a spot of google research you will see that SMART attribute on SSD's is actually part of the wear levelling and self diagnosis of the drive. It's identified a memory block it can't use and written it off basically, but because it's an SSD that's ok it's supposed to do it that way.
 
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