Help understanding SMART result

fish99 · 20 Jun 2012 at 05:14

Hi,

I'm investigating a problem on my dads PC with WoW (just WoW, nothing else has issues) occasionally crashing, and have come up blank with virus scans, CPU temps (E6750, under 55 degrees running 2x superPI for 10 mins) and GPU temps (GTX460, 72 degrees in FurMark after 10 mins), but I did find some SMART problems on the HDD.

As you can see it's a WD 240 GB 7200 rpm and I think that's 14K reported hours on it.

The question is - how serious are these problems, and is this drive still healthy?

Cheers,
Simon.

fish99 · 20 Jun 2012 at 14:35

Thank you.

Do you mean the extended scan or the write zeros scan with the WD tool, because I'd rather not have to backup the drive (TBH I don't even know how to backup a whole drive).

fish99 · 20 Jun 2012 at 16:51

Thanks again, I'll run the test this evening.

fish99 · 20 Jun 2012 at 20:48

Right, ran the WD extended test and it reported no problems. I checked the SMART results after and nothing has changed, so it looks like everything is OK. I have no idea when the bad sectors happened.

TBH it's most likely just WoW being buggy or some WoW mod causing the problem. Thanks again.