HDD Possibly Failing?

[Ryloguy]

Ok so I just posted something a couple mins ago asking about a HDD warning in Defraggler and someone told me to download Crystal Disk Info to see whats going on. (Thanks for that)

Anyway, Crystal Disk Info says the following:

 

Health Status: Caution

 

Everything is fine exept for the Reallocated Sectors Count:

 

ID: 5

Attribute Name: Reallocated Sectors Count

Current: 86

Worst: 86

Threshold: 5

Raw Values: 000000000194

 

What does this mean? <---- (Not Double Rainbow Reference)

How long will my drive last?

Which HDD's would you recommend? <--- (I've heared Seagates have high failure rates)

What temp should my drive be at?

 

I'm running a Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 with 1 TB of storage.

 

Anyway, this is my Steam drive so I'm not THAT worried about backing anything up but I'd still like to know if I should be prepared for a soiled HDD. All help is appreaciated! Thanks!

[riawoias]

Re-allocated sectors means that the drive detected a problem with a sector and moved the data to a spare sector and marked the previous one as bad. This could be a sign of drive failure especially if it is going up constantly or worse rapidly.

 

I would make sure you backup anything important (saves/mods/configs/stray documents).

 

How long your drive will last is unknown it is very random and SMART stats rarely give a good way to predict failure.

Your drive should be below 50degC and above 20degC in a general sense.

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/

All Drives: No Correlation (to temperature)

 

So as long as you stay out of extremes (condensation, overheating) it should be fine.

 

Any mfg that you want should be ok it is really a crapshoot it seems with certain models and probably even batches failing more than others. For HDDs I use mostly WD but also use some Seagate SMR drives for archive purposes. (I think I or someone I know own stocks in WD too so that might be a bias)(Also although HGST is owned  by WD they still operate separately I think according to blackblaze HGST is the most reliable)

 

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-for-q2-2015/

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It just means a sector was damaged and info was relocated. How old is the drive?

[Muffinmaddness]

ok to start off, noone knows how long your drive will last could be days could be months, second, you will hear "buy WD's" NO, "buy seagate" blah blah, they all have pros and cons get a branded one with a good size that fits your budget, i personally only buy seagate drives, but if theres a cheap WD id throw money at it, get a new one asoon as poss and as big as poss, a 2 tb drive is only a litttle more then a one tb drive, may aswell upgrade while your at it =) just my 2 cents

[Enderman]

no way of knowing how long its got left

 

best/safest thing to do is replace it

[Ryloguy]

It just means a sector was damaged and info was relocated. How old is the drive?

I think about 2009 or something.

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I think about 2009 or something.

 

Yeah I would look at some new drives. That's pretty old. I'd say you have a few more months left on this drive, but wouldn't risk it. Anything can happen.

[riawoias]

I tend not to use drives older than 5 years old for anything important.