Need SMART Interpretation

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Ed Light

I've gotten that great HD Sentinel, free version that was mentioned in
this group. For my old Seagate in a USB enclosure it's telling me:

There are 50 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these
sectors were moved to the spare area. The drive found 2 bad sectors
during its self test. There are 2 weak sectors found on the disk
surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new
problems found will be logged there. It is recommended to continuously
monitor the hard disk status.

Is it time to replace this disk, or does it look like it's taking care
of itself?
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Ed Light

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Grant

I've gotten that great HD Sentinel, free version that was mentioned in
this group. For my old Seagate in a USB enclosure it's telling me:

There are 50 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these
sectors were moved to the spare area. The drive found 2 bad sectors
during its self test. There are 2 weak sectors found on the disk
surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new
problems found will be logged there. It is recommended to continuously
monitor the hard disk status.
Click to expand...

What SMART interpretation, you haven't presented it yet!

Grant.
 
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Arno Wagner

Previously Ed Light said:
I've gotten that great HD Sentinel, free version that was mentioned in
this group. For my old Seagate in a USB enclosure it's telling me:
Click to expand...
There are 50 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these
sectors were moved to the spare area. The drive found 2 bad sectors
during its self test. There are 2 weak sectors found on the disk
surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new
problems found will be logged there. It is recommended to continuously
monitor the hard disk status.
Click to expand...
Is it time to replace this disk, or does it look like it's taking care
of itself?
Click to expand...

Weak sectors are bad sectors that were unrecoverable. 50 bad sectors
point to a real poblem. I would replace.

Arno
 
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Franc Zabkar

I've gotten that great HD Sentinel, free version that was mentioned in
this group. For my old Seagate in a USB enclosure it's telling me:

There are 50 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these
sectors were moved to the spare area. The drive found 2 bad sectors
during its self test. There are 2 weak sectors found on the disk
surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new
problems found will be logged there. It is recommended to continuously
monitor the hard disk status.

Is it time to replace this disk, or does it look like it's taking care
of itself?
Click to expand...

My 13GB Seagate drive survived for many years with over 100
reallocated sectors. I finally took it out of service when it began to
grow new defects on an almost daily or weekly basis.

See the SMART data for the final 500 hours of its life in this
spreadsheet:
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/SmartUDM/SMART_13GB.XLS

I was fortunate in that no defect appeared in any critical area of the
file system. A single bad sector can render a drive unbootable. Some
people retire a HDD for this reason.

If the two "weak" sectors are "pending reallocation", then it may be
an idea to check if they are located in the unused area of the file
system. If so, a defrag may recover them, or force them to be
reallocated. Otherwise, if the two sectors are part of an existing
file or files, then it would be an idea to find out which file(s) are
affected.

- Franc Zabkar
 
E

Ed Light

Arno said:
Weak sectors are bad sectors that were unrecoverable. 50 bad sectors
point to a real poblem. I would replace.
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Ah. I'll have to retire the old girl!

It's the original Barracuda quiet model with the shell around it.

BTW I love the way Hard Drive Sentinel can get the SMART data out of a
USB drive.

--
Ed Light

Better World News TV Channel:
http://realnews.com

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http://bringthemhomenow.org
http://antiwar.com

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http://ivaw.org
http://couragetoresist.org

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Thanks, robots.
 
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Ed Light

Franc said:
If the two "weak" sectors are "pending reallocation", then it may be
an idea to check if they are located in the unused area of the file
system. If so, a defrag may recover them, or force them to be
reallocated. Otherwise, if the two sectors are part of an existing
file or files, then it would be an idea to find out which file(s) are
affected.
Click to expand...

Thanks, Franc. I'll retire the old thing.

--
Ed Light

Better World News TV Channel:
http://realnews.com

Bring the Troops Home:
http://bringthemhomenow.org
http://antiwar.com

Iraq Veterans Against the War:
http://ivaw.org
http://couragetoresist.org

Send spam to the FTC at
(e-mail address removed)
Thanks, robots.
 
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Yousuf Khan

Ed said:
I've gotten that great HD Sentinel, free version that was mentioned in
this group. For my old Seagate in a USB enclosure it's telling me:

There are 50 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these
sectors were moved to the spare area. The drive found 2 bad sectors
during its self test. There are 2 weak sectors found on the disk
surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new
problems found will be logged there. It is recommended to continuously
monitor the hard disk status.

Is it time to replace this disk, or does it look like it's taking care
of itself?
Click to expand...

Does the HD Sentinel give an estimated time of death ... er, lifetime
remaining? My current C drive is an 200GB Maxtor, and it's the oldest
drive in the system. HD Sentinel reports it's only 40% healthy, and it
seems to get spin retry count errors occasionally. When I first
installed HDS, it said that it thought it's got 160 days of life left on
it, but over 2 months later the estimate has dropped only to 155 days.

Once HDS says there's less than 100 days left, I'm going to seriously
look at moving the Windows boot disk to one of the newer disks. Then
I'll run a surface scan on the old disk, and repurpose it as a temporary
low-priority data drive, eg. temporary storage for overflow from other
drives. If it completely fails at that point, then it fails.

If your drive has bad sectors and no more re-mappable sectors, then just
running a long chkdsk with surface scan might be able to get the OS
itself to lock out any additional bad sectors.

Yousuf Khan
 

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