Have a HD753LJ (Samsung F1 750gb) drive which I have been happily using for about 4 mths.
Today SMART advised drive is BAD and need to back up & replace.
Got it running o'k but getting same error message on start up.
Ran both Speedfan and Everest and both advised drive ready to fail - Speedfan reffered to 'Unknown Attribute 184' and that the current reading thereof was '1' (Raw was 150 and threshold was 99).
Sounds to me as if drive is on its way out - but before looking to rma it just thought I 'd ask if it was something I could in fact safely ignore.
Would mention that the error arose after I had installed a new Sata DVD drive and re-jigged the hard drives.
I did use the one Sata cable to power the 2 optical drives and the two hd's - all seemed to be working o'k yesterday when I'd set it up but tonight I got the message.
Just in case I've now put the h.d's on a power cable of their own . such has made no difference to the error message .(did wonder if I'd put too much load on the cable causing the drive to fail - is this possible?)
Smartfan is also advising me to watch :-
1. Stop Start count is below average
2. Power Cycle count is below average
3 Ultra DMA crc Error is below average.
AND to put the icing on the cake Speedfans summary is Fitness 0%
Performance 89%
??
Better Half has advised me that the actual order of events was :-
a) Boot computer normally
b) loads windows
c) loading desktop WHEN it suddenly falls over and re-starts.
d) on the re-start the SMART error is seen for the 1st time.
Today SMART advised drive is BAD and need to back up & replace.
Got it running o'k but getting same error message on start up.
Ran both Speedfan and Everest and both advised drive ready to fail - Speedfan reffered to 'Unknown Attribute 184' and that the current reading thereof was '1' (Raw was 150 and threshold was 99).
Sounds to me as if drive is on its way out - but before looking to rma it just thought I 'd ask if it was something I could in fact safely ignore.
Would mention that the error arose after I had installed a new Sata DVD drive and re-jigged the hard drives.
I did use the one Sata cable to power the 2 optical drives and the two hd's - all seemed to be working o'k yesterday when I'd set it up but tonight I got the message.
Just in case I've now put the h.d's on a power cable of their own . such has made no difference to the error message .(did wonder if I'd put too much load on the cable causing the drive to fail - is this possible?)
Smartfan is also advising me to watch :-
1. Stop Start count is below average
2. Power Cycle count is below average
3 Ultra DMA crc Error is below average.
AND to put the icing on the cake Speedfans summary is Fitness 0%
Performance 89%
??Better Half has advised me that the actual order of events was :-
a) Boot computer normally
b) loads windows
c) loading desktop WHEN it suddenly falls over and re-starts.
d) on the re-start the SMART error is seen for the 1st time.
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