SMART - 57% health

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

I just wondered if I should be worrying about this?:

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The drive is just over a year old.

Also, could the low reallocated sector count be causing any performance issues? Whenever Mozilla/IE has to load a lot of images my music lags slightly. Could the low sector count be what's causing it?

Also, the seek time is rather low, it should be at very good... surely?

EDIT

Just had a look at my bros 3+ year old IDE drive and the SMART health bar is full in SpeedFan, so there's definitely something messed up on mine :(

EDIT

Here we go:
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Pretty jumpy, 14ms access time when it should be 8ms. Nothing else was using the drive at the time of test so nothing interrupted it or took speed from it. As you can see it went down to 0.9mb/s at one point.

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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Hmm, but I read that when a lot of sectors have been reallocated the performance is reduced, is that true? Also, why have so many sectors been reallocated on this drive? Surely that means there's something wrong with it as my brothers 3 year+ drive doesn't have nearly as many reallocated sectors.

I'll run a full scan with hd tune tonight.
 
If it was my hard drive with my data on it, I would be very concerned with a 57% health warning. Time for a new hard disk before that one fails.

How hot is this drive when it is in use? Is it properlly cooled? Or just cooking itself to death? Has it taken any extra hard knocks?

Could also be worth checking up on the warrenty. Locate the serial number and check with the manufacturer, most do a 5 year warrenty so as long it's not an OEM drive, then you should be able to get an exchange unit when it does fail.
 
MAllen said:
If it was my hard drive with my data on it, I would be very concerned with a 57% health warning. Time for a new hard disk before that one fails.

How hot is this drive when it is in use? Is it properlly cooled? Or just cooking itself to death? Has it taken any extra hard knocks?

Could also be worth checking up on the warrenty. Locate the serial number and check with the manufacturer, most do a 5 year warrenty so as long it's not an OEM drive, then you should be able to get an exchange unit when it does fail.
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Yep, it's in warranty, it's only a year old.

27 degrees celcius ;)

Also, no it hasn't been knocked at all. I'm extremely careful with my hardware :rolleyes: :p

Do you guys think I should be getting a new hard drive & use this one as a backup/storage drive until it fails & then get it replaced ?

Jeez, the performance is as 88% now :(

Oh, also, a question: could these problems be caused by the motherboard at all? I personally wouldn't have thought so as I don't see how sector reallocation really has anything to do with the motherboard? But could this low health be caused by the motherboard (see first picture of SMART analysis). I don't want to go buying a new drive if this one's perfectly healthy.

EDIT

My goodness, it's getting worse...

The seek performance has now decreased and I can feel it, music lagging when the drive loads something.

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Now my main question is: could these problems be caused by my motherboard?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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BACKUP. :)

Could be a dodgy PSU or bad cables. Though much more likely to just be the drive failing. Normally they go quick, so it is unusual to be able to watch its death. Backup your data and switch over to a new drive ASAP. :) Once backed up, download the manufacture's diagnostics disk and test the drive. (Need to do this anyway before a RMA).
 
MAllen said:
BACKUP. :)

Could be a dodgy PSU or bad cables. Though much more likely to just be the drive failing. Normally they go quick, so it is unusual to be able to watch its death. Backup your data and switch over to a new drive ASAP. :) Once backed up, download the manufacture's diagnostics disk and test the drive. (Need to do this anyway before a RMA).
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Are you should this couldn't be caused by the motherboard? SATA port 2 is actually broken, so I'm thinking it could be the motherboard, although I still don't see how sector reallocation could be low because of the motherboard.
 
Well, it's doing it again, exactly the same thing that happened last time SATA port 2 failed... hard drive is only working at 3mb/s.

I personally don't think the hard drive is properly dying, it might be slightly off with all it's reallocated sectors, but I'm not sure if that's actually the main problem right now, I think SATA port 1 is now failing.

I think it's time I phoned Asus for RMA :(
 
Will do, but I think I had these problems in my last XP build. I'll give it a go though :)

Earlier today I was playing around with FPS Creator (http://www.fpscreator.com) and the hard drive started loading something, at that point my music and mouse lagged majorly. It has happened before with any program (it wasn't FPS creator that caused it) and it happened a few months back when my second SATA port broke.

I stuck my hard drive into my Dads PC to test and did a SMART reading on it with Speedfan, it gave exactly the same results (see my first post with screenshot) - 57% health, so I'm going to replace the hard drive with a 320GB Seagate 7200.10 or a 500GB Seagate 7200.10 depending on how quickly I need the drive.

I'm going to be using the 200GB for backups until it fails, I'll then get it replaced if it's still in warranty :)

Also, I'll need to get an RMA from Asus :(

Thanks for the help everyone,
Craig.
 
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