how healthy are your drives?

mrk

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mrk

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Speedfan has a utility to analyse and display a result of SMART statistics on health by comparing it to manufacturer submitted optimum levels. This gives you a fairly accurate result on how healthy your drives are and I think it's pretty useful!

You are also given a 3dmark like link to reference it if need be. Just wondered how many people out there are running drives that are unfit according to SMART analysis!

Mine:

- Seagate 80GB SATA-NCQ (OS drive)
- Maxtor DMX10 SATA-NCQ 200GB ("My Documents" folder migrated here)
This is my newest drive and has been on 24/7 so I guess the power on hours count is to be expected :p


Since going SATA I've never had any problems with harddrives, I had WD, Seagate and Maxtor drives that died or failed on arrival before but they were all PATA, glad I switched really but the only PATA drive that remained fast and stable for me for right until i moved to sata was the trusty Maxtor Plus 9 8mb drive...very nice drive!
 
not bad! similar temp to what my pata maxtor 120gb ran at too, good drive!
 
My 37GB (very first model) Raptor which I've murdered daily for 3 years:

Your hard disk is a WDC WD360GD-00FNA0 with firmware 34.06J34.
The average temperature for this hard disk is 34C (MIN=24C MAX=44C) and yours is 25C.
The overall fitness for this drive is 98%.
The overall performance for this drive is 98%.
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My 160GB Seagate 7200.7 which I bought at same time as my Raptor and use as a data drive:

Your hard disk is a ST3160023AS with firmware 3.05.
The average temperature for this hard disk is 37C (MIN=26C MAX=50C) and yours is 28C.
The overall fitness for this drive is 92%.
The overall performance for this drive is 92%.
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I wish I could read the S.M.A.R.T. data on my Hitachi drives but after I connected them in RAID0 on the nForce4 controller I can't read the S.M.A.R.T. data :(
 
values are shown for easier reference for experienced users. There are 851 hard disk models in the current archive.

Attribute Current Raw Overall
Raw Read Error Rate 200 0 Very good
Spin Up Time 203 4833 Very good
Start/Stop Count 99 1744 Watch
Warning: Start/Stop Count is below the average limits (100-100).
Reallocated Sector Count 200 0 Very good
Seek Error Rate 200 0 Very good
Power On Hours Count 95 3687 Watch
Warning: Power On Hours Count is below the average limits (96-100).
Spin Retry Count 100 0 Very good
Calibration Retry Count 100 0 Very good
Power Cycle Count 99 1706 Watch
Warning: Power Cycle Count is below the average limits (100-100).
Unknown attribute 190 67 33 Very good
Reallocated Event Count 200 0 Very good
Current Pending Sector 200 0 Very good
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 0 Very good
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 0 Very good
Write Error Rate 200 0 Very good


NOTE: not all warnings are reflected on fitness and performance overall values as relevancy is base

What does mine mean? My powersupply isnt providing enough power to it?
 
it just means it's been powered on longer than the other drives in *** database on average
 
Well if its contantly being turned on and off life will degrade faster than just leaving it on 24/7 :)
 
Last time I ran it my 3x 200gb Maxtors were all between 92-98% healthy and between 52-59C(around 18 months old at this point) which I've got major doubts about because they didn't feel that hot but as long as they keep going I don't really care.
 
It is afterall made of metals which expand and contract as they warm up and cool down
 
I've never had a harddrive fail on me, and i've only had it about 6-8 months, i'm sure it'll be fine, sticking it in a silentmaxx soon aswell.
 
My 3 year old sata Maxtor is
"The overall fitness for this drive is 97%.The overall performance for this drive is 94%"

My 1 week old Seagate 7200.10 320GB is
"The overall fitness for this drive is 99%.The overall performance for this drive is 100%."

Both drives are at 41 degrees, I suppose thats pretty good seeing as I have 4 drives close together in this hot weather.

I've got 2 Samsung 120gbs in Raid aswell but they're not shown.
 
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