Is my hard drive in good condition?

[Mutahar Farooq]

Some of these values look kind of worrying and I don't want to lose very important data on my drive. (Read Error Rate and Seek Error Rate)

[Crunchy Dragon]

Health status says "good", I would guess it's probably fine for a bit longer.

[Mutahar Farooq]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

Health status says "good", I would guess it's probably fine for a bit longer.

That's true, but I've seen people online mentioning that even though their hard drives were listed as "good" in software, their drives failed on them in a short time anyways. People have also been saying that a raw value of 0 is best for read error rate, yet the value is pretty high.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Mutahar Farooq said:

That's true, but I've seen people online mentioning that even though their hard drives were listed as "good" in software, their drives failed on them in a short time anyways. People have also been saying that a raw value of 0 is best for read error rate, yet the value is pretty high.

I guess it couldn't hurt to backup your data for safety reasons.

[XR6]

Health status says good so it'll probably be fine for a couple more years. That being said, it's worth making backups regularly since anything could happen to your drives.

[Mutahar Farooq]

1 minute ago, XR6 said:

Health status says good so it'll probably be fine for a couple more years. That being said, it's worth making backups regularly since anything could happen to your drives.

What about the Read error rate? It looks a little high

[BigDamn]

As far as the statistics that SMART takes into account, your HDD is fine so none of those values should worry you. HDD's can die with a good SMART status, but this would be a hardware failure (ex. actuator stuck/dead) which isn't something you can track with software. Just ensure the HDD is mounted securely, your PC isn't being bumped/dropped, keep a backup of your data, and rest assured you did whatever you could do to keep your data safe.

[Mutahar Farooq]

11 minutes ago, BigDamn said:

As far as the statistics that SMART takes into account, your HDD is fine so none of those values should worry you. HDD's can die with a good SMART status, but this would be a hardware failure (ex. actuator stuck/dead) which isn't something you can track with software. Just ensure the HDD is mounted securely, your PC isn't being bumped/dropped, keep a backup of your data, and rest assured you did whatever you could do to keep your data safe.

That's good to know. How long do you think the hard drive could last at this point?

[Tristerin]

1 hour ago, Mutahar Farooq said:

That's good to know. How long do you think the hard drive could last at this point?

Until it doesn't - so at this point:

 

1 hour ago, BigDamn said:

Just ensure the HDD is mounted securely, your PC isn't being bumped/dropped, keep a backup of your data, and rest assured you did whatever you could do to keep your data safe.

 

[Biggerboot]

I would just let SMART do its thing and read the health status.  It's there so you don't have to analyze it.

 

Usually when the drive starts failing to correct/remap sectors that's when the status changes to "caution".  The Current/Worst/Threshold stuff isn't as telling as the Raw values.  (So if the raw value next to uncorrectable or pending sector count is "0000000000" you're safe)

4 hours ago, Mutahar Farooq said:

That's good to know. How long do you think the hard drive could last at this point?

In theory I think your drive still has years on it left.  

 

As mentioned earlier in the thread, your drive would be more likely do die because of mechanical failure, and CDI isn't going to really give you a warning on something like that.

[BigDamn]

4 hours ago, Mutahar Farooq said:

That's good to know. How long do you think the hard drive could last at this point?

Impossible to say. I've had HDD's die at 15k hours, and I've got HDD's that still run perfect at over 50k hours.