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 Maxtor 6Y200P0 with firmware YAR41BW0.
The average temperature for this hard disk model is 36°C (min=22°C max=52°C) and yours is 44°C.

  Attribute   Current   Raw
Spin Up Time 181 000000005FD6
Start/Stop Count 253 0000000000E9
Reallocated Sector Count 187 00000000029E
Read Channel Margin 253 000000000000
Seek Error Rate 253 000000000000
Seek Time Performance 250 00000000DDB3
Power On Hours Count 216 00000000C8A9
Spin Retry Count 253 000000000000
Calibration Retry Count 253 000000000000
Power Cycle Count 253 000000000155
Power Off Retract Count 253 000000000000
Load Cycle Count 253 000000000000
Hardware ECC Recovered 253 000000000C7A
Reallocated Event Count 253 000000000000
Current Pending Sector 210 0000000001B3
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 253 000000000000
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 199 000000000000
Write Error Rate 253 000000000000
Soft Read Error Rate 253 000000000014
TA Increase Count 253 000000000000
Run Out Cancel 253 000000000002
Shock Count Write Opern 253 000000000000
Shock Rate Write Opern 253 000000000000
Spin High Current 253 000000000000
Spin Buzz 253 000000000000
Offline Seek Performance 194 000000000000
Unknown attribute 99 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 100 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 101 253 000000000000

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 670 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 435 pending sectors (this value is very large and your hard disk should be replaced). 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 94%.

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.