My desktop computer has been behaving very weid lately, It shuts down when it’s supposed to go into sleep mode, sometimes it hibernates. Neither those options are in the Power Plan (Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit). When it wakes up or restart, there are long delays before the sign-in splash panel is displayed. Also the same when switching between users.
In an attempt to eliminate a troubled harddrive, I downloaded the WDB LIfeguard tools and ran SMART analysis.
The following values worry me - also they have a “1” in the “Warranty” column - what does this mean?
Raw Read Error Rate Value:200 Threshold: 51 Worst: 200
Spin up time: 153, 21, 152
Re-allocated sector count: 200, 140, 200
Seek Error rate: 100, 0, 253
Is it time to look for a new hard drive? I think this one is about 2 years old or thereabouts. Maybe less.
Since these numbers are all rates and are larger than the threshold, does this not mean that they are worse than what they should be in a healty drive?
Eg. The Read error rate is 200 and the threshold is 51. So more read errors than the threshold and you suggest this is healthy?
WD’s Data LifeGuard diagnostic software reports the normalised values of the SMART attributes. These can be interpreted as health percentages or health indicators, with higher values generally being better.
To see the actual counts and rates, you need SMART software that reports the raw values of each attribute.
