I think the ‘1’ in the warranty column means that IF there are problems with that attribute, THEN the drive is valid for warranty. However, your drive’s values seem OK:
Raw Read Error Rate: Value 200, Threshold 51, Worst 200
Reallocated Sectors: Value 200, Threshold 140, Worst 200
Spin Up Time: Value 135, Threshold 21, Worst 135
As you can see, none of the attributes have dropped below their given threshold. The first two attributes are still at 200, that’s the initial value of new drives. Spin up time has degraded a bit, but that’s probably nothing to worry about. My drive has a spin up time of 172 and never had any problems with it.
Drevin is correct when asking to see the values for
-Current Pending Sector Count
-Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count
A year or two ago I had a WD drive that about monthly gave CRC/ECC errors requiring CHKDSK repair. Typically I would lose the file that was under the bad sector. I heard about HDDSentinel in these forums, installed, and saw (for the first time) those error counts.
Anyway I went and bought a new (larger!) drive and copied everything to the new one, and reformatted the old one (maybe twice). Since then it has not experienced a single problem. My theory is that the drive had changed in some subtle way since the original formatting.Whatever the reason, it seems to have fixed it. Hope this may work for you too.
I also noticed high temperatures showing in the SMART info from Sentinel, and added a fan to the front of the tower, blowing onto the drives. The difference in temp is remarkable.
I actually tried the WD Lifeguard program first, but I’d recommend you install HDDSentinel or another equivalent program. Then you can see the actual figures. The “Value” figure is an interpretation - it does sometimes happen that even with many errors, the “Value” sticks at the top 200 (or 100 in the case of some drives).
Anyway, with Sentinel, you can see the “Data” column which will show the actual count of Pending Sector Reallocations etc.
By the way, by default the Data column is in Hex. Right-click in the column and choose “Decimal data fields” for readability. Let us know what you get.
I suspect that some attribute values are shown as “253” until the drive has gathered enough SMART data for them to be considered statistically significant.
We have had 3 hdds die in the last 2 months! (1 Seagate 3.5" SATA, 1 WD 3.5" SATA, and a Samsung 2.5" SATA)
We just purchased a new Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARS
(2TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive) and it seems about 50% of the people buying them are having them either DOA or die within 3 months. I am dreading going through this again.
We’ve already lost a ton of data and it’s taken me about 3 weeks to recover some of it using various PC recovering programs.
I REALLY need a reliable drive to start over on. I’m beginning to think this drive was a bad idea and I can’t stand the idea of losing more data after what we just lost, which leads me to my next question. I ran a S.M.A.R.T. scan that was included with a WD hdd utility and it gave me some results that, even after reading the help files, I don’t fully understand if I should be concerned or not.
Can someone please tell me if the following results are good for a brand new drive (2 days old)?
Value Threshold Worst Warranty
Raw Read Error Rate: 200 51 200 1
Spin Up Time: 206 21 187 1
Start/Stop Count: 100 0 100 0
Re-allocated Sector 200 140 200 1
Are the Warranty: 1 items meaning they are bad and should be sent in for a hdd replacement if the
drive is under warranty?
Any help would be great. If I have another hdd crash on me I might just throw all of our computers out
and use a pencil and paper for all of my data entry needs.
Data LifeGuard’s warranty column indicates whether a particular attribute will qualify your drive for replacement if its value falls below the threshold. Such attributes, eg Re-allocated Sector count, are considered critical. Other attributes, such as Start/Stop Count, would reflect wear-and-tear and would therefore not be warranty-able.
That said, you will get a more detailed view of your SMART data with either of the following utilities:
