Re: Need help with "reallocated sector count"?

kimiraikkonen <kimiraikkonen85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Most of the computer users, including professionals, don't
look at or take care SMART's "reallocated sectors count"
value, they usually take care full / surface scans against data
loss unless SMART reaches to a critical level with alerting.

Anyone who does it like that aint a 'professional'.

The MUCH more viable approach is to monitor the raw
SMART data over time and consider what changes mean.

I have e-mailed Seagate to ask about the topic title, they haven't replied
with a satisfactory answer so far. Maybe they know or not. Who knows?

Its more likely that they just gave up on your rather fractured english.

Even sometimes, i hear contact noise, i detailed it them, they said:

And this is a good example of rather fractured english
where it isnt at all clear what you are trying to say.

if the drive passes long test, i shouldn't worry.

Thats rather superficial advice, because it wont pick up increasing numbers
of reallocated sectors which is certainly an indication that the drive is dying.

As i'm not an amateur, i usually watch SMART values to see what goes on.

My other SMART values are those (latest):

Are they any value that should make me concerned? (no pending or uncorrectable sectors)

No, the other values are fine given that its a seagate drive. Seagate drives
do have those rather high seek error rate and hardware ECC recovered numbers.

Attribute Name Threshold Value
Worst Raw value
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 (01) Raw Read Error Rate 34 63
53 2778681
3 (03) Spin Up Time 0
70 70 0
4 (04) Start/Stop Count 20
100 100 692
5 (05) Reallocated Sectors Count 36 98
98 98
7 (07) Seek Error Rate 30
81 60 158998323
9 (09) Power-On Hours 0
93 93 6591
10 (0A) Spin Retry Count 97 100
100 0
12 (0C) Device Power Cycle Count 20 98
98 2602
194 (C2) Temperature 0
21 51 21
195 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 61
53 2778681
197 (C5) Current Pending Sector Count 0 100
100 0
198 (C6) Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100
100 0
199 (C7) UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200
200 0
200 (C8) Write Error Rate (Multi Zone Error Rate) 0 100
253 0
202 (CA) Data Address Mark Errors 0 100
253 0

Sorry, if the lines slide out of the page,

The correct terminology is wrap.

i use Google to access newsgroups, don't know how you get here :-(

You can see that from the post headers.


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