Warning: Load Cycle Count is below the average limits

[spongeguar]

So using Speedfan S.M.A.R.T tool, apparently the load cycle count of my caviar green is below the average? The count is 194, and the average is 196-200. It has a "raw" report of "18589"
I've been experiencing a strange stutter in one of my games - is it possible that this is related? My harddrive reported no bad sectors with the data lifeguard diagnostic from WD, and I only experience the issue with one game..

 

[buwish]

Try running a SMART analysis and see what the report says. It will give you an idea of whether or not the drive is going to fail or in the midst of doing so. Post the results here if you need assistance deciphering it.

 

[spongeguar]

Try running a SMART analysis and see what the report says. It will give you an idea of whether or not the drive is going to fail or in the midst of doing so. Post the results here if you need assistance deciphering it.

I know this is going to sound very stupid, but my technological expertise is not specifically strong in the department of hard drives. By SMART analysis do you mean a smart test, or the actual numbers like reallocated event count / load cycles count / etc?



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That is my S.M.A.R.T status. The two items that are cut off are UltraATA CRC Error Rate and Write Error Rate, both with Value and Worst of 200, 0 threshold, and raw data consisting entirely of 0's

 

[spongeguar]

bump

 

[otsigolf]

Hi, this is my speedfan drive report for my Toshiba MK5055GSX 500GB netbook HD:

Attribute Current Raw Overall
10 Raw Read Error Rate 100 0 Very good
10 Throughput Performance 100 0 Very good
10 Spin Up Time 100 1605 Very good
10 Start/Stop Count 100 1036 Very good
10 Reallocated Sector Count 100 0 Very good
10 Seek Error Rate 100 0 Very good
10 Seek Time Performance 100 0 Very good
5 Power On Hours Count 93 2919 Good
6 Spin Retry Count 120 0 Good
10 Power Cycle Count 100 1033 Very good
10 GSense Error Rate 100 562 Very good
10 Power Off Retract Count 100 60 Very good
0 Load Cycle Count 68 320824 Watch
Warning: Load Cycle Count is below the average limits (93-100).
10 Reallocated Event Count 100 0 Very good
10 Current Pending Sector 100 0 Very good
10 Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 0 Very good
10 Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 0 Very good
10 Disk Shift 100 8273 Very good
5 Loaded Hours 95 2318 Good
10 Load Retry Count 100 0 Very good
10 Load Friction 100 0 Very good
10 Load In Time 100 354 Very good
10 Write head 100 0 Very good

Recently, I am experiencing occasional failed starts and one blue screen under WindowsXP.

 

[Hawkeye22]

I think your hard drive is on it's way out based on the spin retry count and load cycle count.

Smart attributes and their description can be found here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

EDIT:
You may want to backup that drive soon.