Understanding S.M.A.R.T. Data for Western Digital 320GB HD

kumori

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I have a Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB SATA hard drive (Model: WDC WD3200AAKS-00UU3A0) and I recently got an odd Windows 7 notice in my notification bar saying that "****.exe is unreadable. Please run CHKDSK" or something to that effect. I downloaded the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics and ran both the Quick and Extended tests, which both came back as PASS. I also ran CHKDSK and that also discovered no problems.

However my question is regarding the SMART data I got, which had a high Raw Read Error Rate (200), Spin Up Time (141) and Re-allocated Sector Count (200). I'm wondering if these are any stats to be worried about? The drive is about a month old.

Here's a snapshot of the data:
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You got a fairly decent drive so you shouldn't have any long term issues. As for the file it may be corruption or a false alarm. 589 hours isn't much use, I got 12,399 hours on my 40gb. 4,782 hours on my seagate 160gb, being replaced due to spindle. 9,309 hours on my 250gb. 4,065 on my wd6400aaks 640gb blue.
 

kumori

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Thanks for the information! I haven't seen anything else out of the ordinary, so it might have just been a Windows false alarm.
 
As you have run the manufactures diagnostics program and it did not find anything wrong then I would say that the hard disk is fine and that you do not have anything to worry about with the hard disk.
The fact that you got a corruption of your file system that CHKDSK presumably fixed, I would be concerned that your memory was working correctly. Try running memtest86 overnight.
However this kind of problem can also be caused by not shutting down the computer properly.