I’ve had progressive failures that start with a few soft (correctable) read errors and progress to total failure of the drive, but I’ve also had failures where the drive showing nothing at all sinister in SMART just up and died while I was using it, or it would not start up at boot time or wake up from sleep mode. Why would I not take the drive out of service at the first sign of possible problems? Well, I consider ALL drives to be suspect for imminent failure to some degree, so having one that is starting to show some signs is not too far removed from what I thought of it before.
I’d watch it like a hawk and keep good backups. I would consider the drive suspect, but I wouldn’t automatically go replace it at once unless you want to for other reasons too, like wanting an SSD or a bigger rust spinner, or if the possibility of downtime would be really bad rather than just annoying. If there is any important un-backed-up data on that drive, I’d back it up immediately. The second image, from Speccy, shows that at 26882 hours, you had 121. I am a little troubled by what I see in your images your first image from CrystalDiskInfo shows that at 26594 hours of uptime, you had 115 reallocated sectors. If the uncorrectable sectors, reallocated sectors, or pending sectors is/are increasing as time passes, that’s a pretty good sign that the drive is failing. If the reallocated sector count stays constant, and the other pertinent SMART numbers stay good, the drive may still perform well for years to come. The reallocated sector count is a warning to look into things further, but it doesn’t in and of itself mean that the drive is going bad (which is why Speccy reports it as good). SMART values give you a glimpse into the drive’s internal health, but they don’t tell you for sure that it’s going to fail or that it’s fine. So, Is Instant Karma gonna get me or is it reasonable for me to continue with my cautious approach? I’m hoping that some hardware gals/guys can weigh-in with their expertise. Instant Conundrum! BTW, Image 1 gives the drive’s specs. Well, Speccy says the “real” count is 121 and the drive’s Health Status is “Good” (see attached image 2). The count has not changed.Īnd then my subconscious smacked me in the head and said “Why not see what Speccy has to say”. However, the count of reallocated sectors didn’t seem very high to me (see attached image 1) so I ruminated about whether to soon but a new drive or just keep an eye on the count once a week. I did some research and found some opinions that catastrophic failure could be imminent. Recently, CrystalDiskInfo has been warning me that my “Reallocated Sectors Count” on the Data Drive is too high. Periodically I run CrystalDiskInfo in order to view the S.M.A.R.T. The System is on the primary and I use the other one as a Data drive. My desktop has 2 spinning platter disk drives.
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