Harddrive Smart/Health problem?

G J · 11 Feb 2009 at 14:34

I was just randomly benchmarking my harddrives and the performance is fine, I browse to the health tab and there seem to be a issue on my main boot drive with the row highlighted yellow: (05) Reallocated Sector Count, is this a cause for concern?

This 320gb drive is my main boot drive and nearly full, I also have a maxtor 120gb drive as a backup and thats nearly full also. I'm worried about the drive dying on me

yashiro · 11 Feb 2009 at 15:44

You have 5 reallocated sectors, just in case you were a bit confused by the columns.
You should look into getting a new drive, yes.

My data from a 4yr old drive.

Code:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            5016
  4 Start_Stop_Count        1694
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0
  9 Power_On_Hours          18628
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0					
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       1673
194 Temperature_Celsius     34
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0

G J · 12 Feb 2009 at 11:58

Thanks for the reply, i've since done a full health scan via HDTune and all is okay for the moment.

I've had the drive since Aug 2007, if the problem gets worse and the warrenty is still in effect would i be able to RMA it?

I'm on the look out for a new drive, I wish a 500gb platter version of the Western Digital Black/Blue would hurry up and come out

domthecondom · 12 Feb 2009 at 13:21

:O i would be more worried about loosing your data :O

Aono · 14 Feb 2009 at 18:02

I have the same error but only 1 reallocated sector. Is that something to worry about?

ChrisLX200 · 14 Feb 2009 at 18:19

You have to keep an eye on this over time, all drives have defects - they just don't show up as the bad sectors get re-allocated. Thing is, you don't know when they were marked as bad. If that number starts to increase you know the clock is ticking before the drive technically 'fails', and by that I mean no more spare sectors available. It's normally a slow process, but rapid increase in the number means there's a problem with the platters. So look every week for the next month or so - if no change you're OK.