how healthy are your drives?

Royality · 25 Jul 2006 at 11:06

What does fitness actually mean? I've got a drive with 0% fitness but 97% performance... I don't get it.

Meatball · 25 Jul 2006 at 13:51

Cal_G · 27 Jul 2006 at 15:16

Looking at my report, my brand new seagate.10 is less healthy than my 1 year old western digital?

Vegeta · 27 Jul 2006 at 15:28

My wd was 90/90 when i first installed it, then went upto 97/100 within a week.

Vegeta · 27 Jul 2006 at 15:30

Royality said:
What does fitness actually mean? I've got a drive with 0% fitness but 97% performance... I don't get it.

Fitness is a bit well can be untrue - its like car mileage, it will rate your drive to be less fit if it has be on/off more times on average than those reported by other users on the same hard drive, so the drive itself may actually be in perfect condition but because its been on/off more it will record that and put the fitness down, I think performance is the real indicator?

Vegeta · 27 Jul 2006 at 15:38

top one, one week old wd 250gb sata2 16mbcache
bottom one a year old one.

As far as I can see my older drive performs identical to the new one, but is being rated lower in fitness because its been switched on more then the new one obviously.

zXen · 27 Jul 2006 at 17:09

My new Seagate 320 gb I got from OCuk last month got:

The overall fitness for this drive is 78%.
The overall performance for this drive is 78%.

It went through a short stint of not working with the "Delayed write error" prompt, though I fixed it by changing the SATA ports.

Nonetheless, it looks bad :-/ Is there anything i can do to help it?

Cal_G · 27 Jul 2006 at 17:51

Mine was around that for the same drive purchased a few weeks ago, drive works perfectly and is a bit faster than my other which reported 100% on both. Not worried about it to be honest as the drive is performing perfectly

zXen · 27 Jul 2006 at 18:03

Cal_G said:
Mine was around that for the same drive purchased a few weeks ago, drive works perfectly and is a bit faster than my other which reported 100% on both. Not worried about it to be honest as the drive is performing perfectly

Well i noticed when iI look at the SpeedFan online results table it is much smaller and has less information, maybe this is the reason why

Foehammer2003 · 27 Jul 2006 at 18:43

Woot! seems i am the first here with 100/100!

edit: how do i get the link? as my IE browser just give a site, and not my result specific one

Edit: this should be it! http://www.hddstatus.com/hdrepshowreport.php?ReportCode=406873&ReportVerification=8ED36679

EDIT 3 :rolleyes:

: Drives can take a while to break in to their maximum performance, so anyone not impressed with initial results should try again after some heavy use.

Cal_G · 27 Jul 2006 at 20:38

Foehammer2003 said:
Woot! seems i am the first here with 100/100!

Looking at you picture "Unknown attribute 190 54 46 Good"

If it's an unknown attribute how does it know it's good :confused:

Foehammer2003 · 27 Jul 2006 at 23:51

Cal_G said:
Looking at you picture "Unknown attribute 190 54 46 Good"

If it's an unknown attribute how does it know it's good

lol, i dunno... like the x-files, we know its out there, but how do we know?

Or think of a top sports car, its the handles or something, maybe the rear view mirror. Either way its good

Spyhop · 28 Jul 2006 at 00:15

My 160GB Seagate is showing 91% fitness and 91% performance. If it's a linear scale then I'm pretty happy with that!

Is there an easy way to read this SMART info from an external drive? I've got a LaCie connected via USB that I'd like to check up on.