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SMART values?

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DanK

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I was using Speedfan to check my temperatures, and decided to look at the SMART information for my hard disks. This is what I get for one of my drives:

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I don't like the look of that icon by the seek error rate.. also, the performance is listed at 19%. Is this something I should be worried about?
 
My 7200.7 returns a threshold of 30, value of 75 and worst of 60 for that same category, and it is still working quite normally. Zero problems/errors, I think you're fine.
 
Just to follow up on this, the drive in my above post died about 2 weeks afterwards. (Maybe I jinxed myself?) The drive made a little scraping noise, and the computer froze; I rebooted and everything seemed to work normally, until... click... click... click... click... :eek:

I had backups of everything important, thankfully, and I had been looking for an excuse to buy a 250GB drive anyway (just not so soon). :p Moral of the story: make backups and check your drives regularly, they might be on the way out.
 
I find it funny how the 'fitness' of this now dead HDD was being reported as 100%, whereas for most people this value appears to drop below 80% within weeks :)
 
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