Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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You should get used to using SMARTmontools https://www.smartmontools.org/
It's an open source SMART monitor run on the command line. Instead of just showing you the stats for each SMART attribute,...
Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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Steve Gibson of grc.com has his utility called Spinrite. It isn't free but if memory serves me it is $89.00. It comes with a money back guarantee that states "if it doesn't work for you you get a no...
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My old Hitachi (now HGST, like your drive) 1T 7K1000.C with over 29,000 hours on it has some threshhold values that are identical:
http://i.imgur.com/YUj6oIL.jpg
Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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Try the surface scan of HDDscan, but I don't know if it works on drives bigger than 2TB. It not only reports what sectors are bad but also which are marginal (require multiple retries). Windows...
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Thanks for all the advice. I'm going to contact HGST and see if they can do anything for me since the drive is only 1 year old and I think it has a 3 year warranty.
Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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So have I, but drives are relatively cheap these days, and the odds are against you when bad sectors show up, so I think it would be best to back everything up and replace the drive.
Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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I love stats that say stuff like if a drive has re-allocated sectors it is more likely to fail...like saying if your car is leaking radiator fluid it is more likely to over heat. No kidding,...never...
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Just keep track of the bad sectors ( screenshot ) to see if it increases. I have had drives with the same amount of bad sectors for years.
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but the 5 isn't, it's the raw values
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Interesting factoid! Welcome to S-D.
BTW, I 'popped' your rep cherry. :lol:
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The worrisome thing is that the drive (according to a couple of the images) has 5 reallocated sectors. There is a strong correlation between reallocated sectors and drive failure. There was a large...
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Like said before, backup and you can do it to the cloud also.
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I don't think I would be worried on what your showing here. As everyone said I would have a current backup just in case. It's always a good idea.
HGST has a drive fitness tool, I would run it...
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I would back it up asap.
Should I be worried about this hard drive failing?
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You should worry that all HDDs are about to fail. Backup anyways and run it into the ground.
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When in doubt, run a backup. Worry less. :)
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I'm getting different reports from different S.M.A.R.T. programs about my HGST 4TB Deskstar NAS HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145912).
Some programs say it's OK and...
