HDD Health check: poor... what next? (astra32 info)

Have a raid1 array, with 2 sata disks.
Installed Astra32 to get temperature info, etc... and in one of the disks of
the array it displays that the health is "poor".

Not sure why this is the case....
temperature is 42 centigrades (normal), all the other parameters seem ok....

any hint please?
TIA!
luis

Poor health usually means defective sectors on the drive. Replace it soon,
or possibly lose everything on the drive.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"luis" <doesntexist@noserver.com> wrote in message
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> Have a raid1 array, with 2 sata disks.
> Installed Astra32 to get temperature info, etc... and in one of the disks
> of the array it displays that the health is "poor".
>
> Not sure why this is the case....
> temperature is 42 centigrades (normal), all the other parameters seem
> ok....
>
> any hint please?
> TIA!
> luis
>

shouldn't this be automatically handled by the raid controller? i.e. writing
in another sector?

Sorry for asking if this is obvious: this was reported by Astra32... is this
something a raid controller would report ie. if it tries to write in a
sector and it is defective...

many TIA
luis


"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Poor health usually means defective sectors on the drive. Replace it soon,
> or possibly lose everything on the drive.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "luis" <doesntexist@noserver.com> wrote in message
> news:ea3bNNmKGHA.1180@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Have a raid1 array, with 2 sata disks.
>> Installed Astra32 to get temperature info, etc... and in one of the disks
>> of the array it displays that the health is "poor".
>>
>> Not sure why this is the case....
>> temperature is 42 centigrades (normal), all the other parameters seem
>> ok....
>>
>> any hint please?
>> TIA!
>> luis
>>
>
>

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 19:02:37 +0100, luis wrote:

> shouldn't this be automatically handled by the raid controller? i.e. writing
> in another sector?
>
> Sorry for asking if this is obvious: this was reported by Astra32... is this
> something a raid controller would report ie. if it tries to write in a
> sector and it is defective...
>
> many TIA
> luis
>
>
Does it matter if it does or not?

Once bad clusters start showing up, it's time to replace the drive. Reason,
there is already an allowance, "slush fund" if you will, on the drive for a
handful of bad clusters. The existence of these "allowed" bad clusters is
usually invisible to the end user. When the slush fund is used up, then
your disk tools start showing them too. In other words, the drive has been
suffering from bad clusters for a while - replace it.

If the drive is still under warranty, contact the manufacturer for a
replacement.

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

luis wrote:
> Have a raid1 array, with 2 sata disks.
> Installed Astra32 to get temperature info, etc... and in one of the
> disks of the array it displays that the health is "poor".
>
> Not sure why this is the case....
> temperature is 42 centigrades (normal), all the other parameters
> seem ok....
> any hint please?
> TIA!
> luis

I would use the mfg's diagnostic tool. You would usually need this
for RMA
purposes anyway.