Hard disk health

[scootyfan]

Hello,
The following is the heath status for one of my drives.
Please help me...



HD Tune: WDC WD3200AAJS-00L7A0 Health


ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 199 199 51 31536 Ok
(03) Spin Up Time 127 123 21 4625 Ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 99 99 0 1459 Ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 63 63 140 1095 Failed
(07) Seek Error Rate 100 253 0 0 Ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 92 92 0 6200 Ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 0 Ok
(0C) Power Cycle Count 99 99 0 1432 Ok
(C0) Power Off Retract Count 200 200 0 373 Ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 200 200 0 1459 Ok
(C2) Temperature 114 85 0 29 Ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 1 1 0 1062 Ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 200 200 0 0 Ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 100682 Ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 200 200 0 2 Ok

Power On Time : 6200
Health Status : Failed

 

[Hawkeye22]

The drive is still usable. It's complaining about the reallocated sector count of course. Keep an eye on Current Pending Sector. If it starts going up, the drive is failing. As a precaution, you may want to make sure you have good backups of your data.

Wikipedia lists what those parameters mean.

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

 

[scootyfan]

Ok, thanks! But why Reallocated sector count is going down. It's normal?!

 

[Hawkeye22]

Its says 1095 reallocated sectors. It should have started at 0.

 

[scootyfan]

But here is : Reallocated Sector Count 63 63 140 1095 Failed .
this "63" what is meaning? it was 110~120 (I don't remember) and is going down... now is 63... what will happen when will be "0" ?? Thank's

 

[Hawkeye22]

I believe those are spare sectors. When it runs out of spare sectors, your current pending sector count will start going up and you will begin to lose data.

 

[scootyfan]

what may I do with this problem? do you know how I can resolv it? tell me please!!!

 

[scootyfan]

what may I do with this problem? do you know how I can resolv it? tell me please!!!

 

[Hawkeye22]

If the drive is beginning to fail, there is nothing you can do. ALL DRIVES FAIL at some time. Be sure to have your data backed up in case it fails. Assuming this is your windows drive, if you don't want to wait until it actually fails, you can clone the disk to a new drive and swap it out for the old one. Otherwise, back up the data, wait for the drive to fail. Install a new drive. Reinstall windows, then restore your data.

 

[scootyfan]

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