Need help reading a HD Tune and Crystal disk

Philloz · Aug 20, 2016

I've been having issues with my computer lately, Windows 8.1. Had issues with games crashing and crashes when I try to restart. Though it was due to a full HD so I made room and now I'm still having the same issues. I did recently defrag the drive and I'm getting some warnings on my HDD.

Crystal Disk - http://imgur.com/vwlIoLc
HD Tune - http://imgur.com/IqA7qBH

I've tried to look up information on what these things could mean but can't quite make heads or tails of it. if someone could give me some input I'd appreciate it.

Colif · Aug 20, 2016

Crystal Disk SMART scores

Reallocated Sectors Count: The number of the unused spare sectors. When encountering a read/write/check error, a device remaps a bad sector to a "healthy" one taken from a special reserve pool. Normalized value of the attribute decreases as the number of available spares decreases.On a regular hard drive, Raw value indicates the number of remapped sectors, which should normally be zero. On an SSD, the Raw value indicates the number of failed flash memory blocks.

starts at 100, your value 89

Current Pending Sector Count: The number of unstable sectors which are waiting to be re-tested and possibly remapped.
starts at 100, your total 24

Uncorrectable Sector Count S.M.A.R.T. parameter is a critical parameter and indicates the quantity of uncorrectable errors. The raw value of this attribute indicates the total number of uncorrectable errors when reading/writing a sector.

Recommendations - This is a critical parameter. Degradation of this parameter may indicate imminent drive failure. Urgent data backup and hardware replacement is recommended.

https://kb.acronis.com/content/9134

starts at 100, your total = 24

ON HD tune, click on health, it probably shows similar values and scores to the image you loaded.

http://superuser.com/questions/26842/can-i-trust-a-hard-drive-that-has-had-to-reallocate-sectors

That's the number of bad sectors detected. CrystalDiskInfo displays them in hexadecimal, which is why I always recommend using HDTune or Defraggler to read SMART stats instead - they convert the numbers to human readable form.

67 - 103 in decimal
1D - 29 in decimal
2A - 42 in decimal

It seems that zeroing the drive convinced it temporarily that as many as 74 bad sectors were okay - but then it started to discover that some of them were in fact not okay, and has since marked 13 bad again.

In my opinion, once a drive gets past perhaps a few dozen bad sectors, it becomes "dangerous" to use if you value your data. I say "dangerous" because it might take months to degrade to the point where files start getting corrupted... but it also might not. Keep in mind that for some files only 1 bit of data needs to be corrupted to make them unopenable.

I only use drives with under 5-10 reallocated sectors in my own PCs. After that I RMA them or replace them.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1341922/fixing-a-current-pending-sector-count

I think its time for a new drive.

Philloz · Aug 20, 2016

Colif :

Thank you. This is what I was thinking but wanted to make sure I'm not missing something simple.

Colif · Aug 20, 2016

i checked the smart on my hdd and saw the values you should have and went OMG. I would get a drive as soon as possible as there is no way of knowing when it will just stop.

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