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 ST9500325AS with firmware 0002SDM1.
The average temperature for this hard disk model is 38°C (min=27°C max=50°C) and yours is 39°C.

  Attribute   Current   Raw
Raw Read Error Rate 114 000004A874F4
Spin Up Time 99 000000000000
Start/Stop Count 100 00000000000E
Reallocated Sector Count 99 000000000018
Seek Error Rate 66 00000049BB6C
Power On Hours Count 100 000000000054
Spin Retry Count 100 000000000000
Power Cycle Count 100 00000000000C
End To End Error Count 100 000000000000
Reported Uncorrectable Errors 100 000000000000
Command Time Out 100 000000000002
High Fly Writes 100 000000000000
GSense Error Rate 100 000000000001
Power Off Retract Count 100 000000000001
Load Cycle Count 100 000000000617
Hardware ECC Recovered 53 000004A874F4
Current Pending Sector 100 000000000000
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 000000000000
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 200 000000000000
Free fall protection 100 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 24 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 88%.
The overall performance for this drive is 93%.

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.