Hard disk health and reliability analysis

Almost every EIDE or SATA hard disk includes S.M.A.R.T. data. That information is collected by the drive itself and contains data that the manufacturer considered relevant to check reliability. The data is made up of several attributes that have a current value, a worst one, a threshold, some raw data, and some flags. Basically, when any attribute's current value is below its threshold, the hard disk is considered unreliable and likely to fail. By using several techniques, this report tries to give a wider range of information, basing its analysis on advanced comparisons with normal values based on real hard disks and on expert-like checks. The final results are not to be taken as an absolute truth, but they are almost as good as a professional expert advice about your hard disk status.

Your hard disk is a WDC WD1600BEVS-22RST0 with firmware 04.01G04.
The average temperature for this hard disk model is 41°C (min=29°C max=53°C) and yours is 40°C.

  Attribute   Current   Raw
Raw Read Error Rate 200 00000000026D
Spin Up Time 188 00000000062F
Start/Stop Count 98 0000000009C8
Reallocated Sector Count 130 00000000022A
Seek Error Rate 100 000000000000
Power On Hours Count 92 000000001988
Spin Retry Count 100 000000000000
Calibration Retry Count 100 000000000000
Power Cycle Count 98 000000000981
Power Off Retract Count 200 000000000233
Load Cycle Count 144 000000029A04
Reallocated Event Count 1 00000000022A
Current Pending Sector 200 000000000000
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 000000000000
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 000000000000
Write Error Rate 100 000000000000

Troubled attributes:
Attribute Reallocated Sector Count is failing now! Its current value is 130, the worst value was 130 and the threshold is 140. According to the manufacturer, this is a pre-failure condition.

SERIOUS ISSUE : your hard disk has 554 reallocated sectors. Hard disks do have spare sectors (usually from 256 up to 2560) used to replace bad ones. This remapping operation is transparent to the end user. Anyway, this can lead to degraded performances (because remapped sectors are in different places of the disk than the original ones and the head needs additional moving). If reallocated sectors grow over time, you might encounter some serious troubles. A backup of the most important data is suggested anyway.

The overall fitness for this drive is 0%.
The overall performance for this drive is 90%.

The link to get back and see a new report about this hard disk in the future is this. Consider that new hard disks and new checks are added over time.


DISCLAIMER: this report does its best to highlight issues and warnings related to your hard disk. It cannot be held responsible for any mistake. This page and its results cannot be used in any other way but the one defined by its author.