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Smart Test? Do they need immediately replaced?

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WJC05

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Needing someone to tell me about these results. Are they bad, should I go ahead and replace? Data is backed up.



 
In both cases this is somewhat troublesome because this indicates the drive has written data that it can not read (drive amnesia). Did you do a full format when you added these drives to your system?
 
yes these are old drives, several years old, bought new. They have been in my system for a while, was just seeing if I needed to go ahead and replace them immediately with a new drive.
 
Did they get these errors recently?

I have some drives that got reallocated and pending sectors years ago in one event and the drive handled them and I have not seen any errors in more than 3 years since.

These attributes can be an indicator something is going wrong, but they are not a guarantee. Hard drives are more than capable of handing a small amount of these errors so long as they are not a continuously recurring thing.
 
how much time of warranty it have?.. I have 2 years with a disk with 6 weak sectors and 6 bad sectors... according to HDsentinel it have still 91% of health and the disk its working still perfect i use as a secondary OS disk for gaming and bench no issues so far.
 
I'd say, if you have a copy of Spinrite6 run it on those drives.

If Spinrite pops up it's "imminent failure flag set" message warning you to back up what data you can before attempting to run Spinrite, then absolutely, those drives are on their last legs and should be replaced immediately.

If the failure flag has not been set, let spinrite have a go at the drives. When I run spinrite, I usually watch it until it gives an estimate of time remaining on the main partition, write that down, and if no "R" (Bad block data recovered) or "U" (bad block, some unrecovered data) blocks show up in the log, and the actual completion time is within 10% of the estimate, I consider that to be a reasonably healthy and reliable drive.

If there ARE "R" or "U" blocks, run spinrite again. If no more blocks are detected on the second pass, the drive is probably healthy, but should be monitored carefully and backed up regularly.

If more "R" or "U" blocks are detected, on the second pass the drive is definitely dying and should be replaced.
 
WJC05 said:
yes these are old drives, several years old, bought new. They have been in my system for a while, was just seeing if I needed to go ahead and replace them immediately with a new drive.
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No.

I have a couple of old out of warranty drives like this in my system that have had the same exact number of errors for years. A few errors are not an indication of pending failure. Just monitor the drives and see if the number of errors increases. Then worry about it and replace the drives if they do.
 
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