Interpreting PassMark DiskCheck SMART Info...

[Stuh505]

My disk:

From the manual:

Raw Value
The raw value varies from attribute to attribute, but it generally represents a more meaningful measure of the attribute. It usually shows a count of the number of errors, hours, or times depending on the attribute in question. For instance, for the temperature attribute, it shows the degrees (in Celsius) of the drive.

Status
Provided a status for the attribute. OK means the attribute value is well in the safe zone and FAIL means that a Threshold Exceeding Condition has been detected.

Value
The attribute value is a normalized number measuring the attributes current reliability. The higher this value is, the more reliable the drive is, insofar as this attribute is concerned. For some attributes, this value is normalized between 1 and 100, for others between 1 and 200 and for others still, such as temperature the attribute value is the actual non-normalized temperature in degrees Celsius. When an attribute value falls below that attributes threshold, the drive is no longer operating safely.

Worst
With the exception of temperature, this is the lowest attribute value that has been recorded for this attribute and shows the moment when the attribute was closest to falling below its threshold. For temperature, it is the highest attribute value recorded.

Threshold
If the attribute value drops below that attribute threshold for any drive, a Threshold Exceeding Condition (TEC) has occurred and the drive should be replaced. The threshold is thus a measure of how an attribute can become before the drive is deemed unsafe.

Predicted TEC Date
This is the predicted date and time of the Threshold Exceed Condition (TEC). Prediction is based on the collected TEC data. See "Threshold Exceed Condition prediction" for more info.

Note: I just started running this program a few hours ago.

There are a lot of apparent contradictions here...

Signs indicating that the device is bad:
* Predicted TEC date has already passed, indicating that the device has already failed.
* Orange highlighting

Signs indicating that the device is NOT bad:
* Status is recorded as "OK"
* Raw Value for for the error rate is 0...which would seem to indicate the error rate is 0 (perfect success rate).

Just plain confusing
* The documentation says that "higher numbers are better" yet the value in the Worst column is higher than the regular value for many different characteristics....Seek Error Rate, CRC Error Count...

* On my other drive, the value for "Worst" is higher than "Value"...indicating that low numbers are good, yet the "Threshold" is much lower than the current value, indicating that high numbers are good.

Hopefully someone with more experience using this program can explain the meaning of hese WACKY results...