When to worry over smart fitness?

[eddiew]

Hey guys,

Quick question; I have an aging 1TB hard drive that is showing 37% fitness under Speedfan's smart monitor. I have no system issues, no errors in the windows logs, and no other reason to believe anything is wrong with the drive.

Time for a new drive, or is it just crying wolf?

Cheers

 

[Aurhinius]

Depending on the parameters that are being read by SMART it usually means the drive is getting worn and old.

It could be that there are some bad sectors that have been replaced, spin up time is taking longer, seek times are taking longer.

It's a general health check.

Think of it as a health check on a 20 year old compared to an 80 year old. There's more likely to be something wrong with the 80 year old in the not distant future and this is what it is telling you.

Your drive is getting old be warned.

 

[eddiew]

Depending on the parameters that are being read by SMART it usually means the drive is getting worn and old.

Heh, it definitely is getting old, this I knew already Not sure whether it's actually a problem however, given that there's no actual errors appearing anywhere O_o

I guess I'll have to watch it and see if the fitness is actually degrading...