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 WD1600AAJS-08PSA0 with firmware 05.06H05.
The average temperature for this hard disk model is 35°C (min=25°C max=45°C) and yours is 31°C.

  Attribute   Current   Raw
Raw Read Error Rate 183 000000031F06
Spin Up Time 174 0000000008DA
Start/Stop Count 100 0000000002F9
Reallocated Sector Count 171 0000000000E8
Seek Error Rate 200 000000000000
Power On Hours Count 87 00000000271C
Spin Retry Count 100 000000000000
Calibration Retry Count 100 000000000000
Power Cycle Count 100 000000000287
Power Off Retract Count 200 00000000005C
Load Cycle Count 200 000000000303
Reallocated Event Count 1 0000000000D7
Current Pending Sector 200 000000000008
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 000000000000
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 000000000003
Write Error Rate 169 0000000007F8

All the attributes of your hard disk are above the S.M.A.R.T. thresholds set by the manufacturer. This is good.

SERIOUS ISSUE : your hard disk has 232 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.

BLOCKING ISSUE : your hard disk has 8 pending sectors. Those are sectors that couldn't be properly read and that the hard disk logic is waiting for a write operation to try to remap to a spare sector (if available). According to the Reallocated Sector Count attribute, your hard disk seems to have available spare sectors. A simple disk surface scan won't be enough to force the remap operation. You need a read/write surface scan to remap the sector. The best option should be a tool that knows about what should be read from that sector so that it has some option to apply the best fix to the missing data.

The overall fitness for this drive is 0%.
The overall performance for this drive is 80%.

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.