HDD SMART Error


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Need I worry about this? A few friends says to get a new drive. Others say it is fine. What's the verdict here?

 

I store all my DVDs on it.

 

I plan to buy a new 2-3TB drive no matter what. Soon as I get some money. So does this really matter? No, but I just wanna know the verdict.

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Why would different software report any different value - this is the smart info from the disk directly.  All software should report the same values, the only thing different software might do is have different levels of warnings for different values, where one might call it a Red Alert, others might say its just a warning, etc.

 

Here is good info on this value

https://kb.acronis.com/content/9133

 

If this value is going up, then its bad.. And replacement should be a priority.  If its a somewhat low number say single digits or goes down, then not so much - keep an eye on it.

 

Yes sectors go bad, they are just remapped, etc.  This the value of sectors that had problems and are waiting to be remapped. 102 seems like a LOT if you ask me.

 

edit: so looking at my oldest drive 5 years 322 days, it has 31 pending - this is warning number but its not flagging the drive as imminent failure, its a OLD drive I don't use it for anything but junk.  Its on my list to replace - just haven't replaced it yet.  I set the warning to ignored and I will get a warning if goes to 32 for example.  For software on keeping an eye on your disks, I really like the stablebit scanner.  You can set it up for text messages if issues found with your disk, etc..So for example I uncheck to ignore that number of 31 warning, and instantly got text reporting the problem.  None of my other drives show any, even the a 3 year old drive.

 

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I think I am going to take a look at drive prices and maybe order this replacement.  6 years is old enough ;)

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A low number of sectors is really not an issue. Hard drives often come with bad sectors from the factory, you don't see them because they're hidden in a different list, known as the P-List (Primary defect list, which is set read only once the factory test completes). The G-List (grown defect list) is the lifetime list which is updated during the drive lifetime. 102 sectors really isn't much, it's when you get big consistent clusters of them going bad you may possibly be looking at head failure, and need to start worrying.

 

Just keep backups, so if it does suddenly get worse overnight, you're covered. Hard drives will only do what's known as offline data collection when the drive is idle for at least 4 hours, that is when it does a full internal sector self test. Once one of these is completed the sector list may increase, especially if they are sectors previously unused, therefore not discovered under normal use until the self test kicks in. Most of the time pre-allocated or pending sector counts only increase during normal usage. 102 sectors is only about a few MB, in a modern drive that's hardly anything.

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Download the free edition of HD Sentinel, and run a READ ONLY surface scan, this will reveal any further weak or bad sectors, and give you an idea of the total health of the drive. EDIT: Woops, forgot you were on Linux, my mistake, I'm not sure of a similar program for Linux, unless you have a Windows computer you can try it on and connect the disk to?

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