CrystalDiskInfo Caution

[blbalsdfkjivbvwerlo3244534]

Is this cause for worry? I don't understand what most of these things mean.

[Jurrunio]

To put it short: Time to replace it. Better do it now so when it fails, you dont lose your stuff.

[blbalsdfkjivbvwerlo3244534]

Just now, Jurrunio said:

To put it short: Time to replace it. Better do it now so when it fails, you dont lose your stuff.

Any more in-depth explanations of what the errors mean?

[Salacious B Crum]

Although all drives are different a good rule is 5-7 years and/or around 20,000 hours your not quite there in hours how old is the drive? Either way I would at the very least back it up every 10 minutes in the event of a failure and would recommend its replacement.

[Jurrunio]

1 hour ago, coop152 said:

Any more in-depth explanations of what the errors mean?

bad sectors. Hard drive storage spaces are divided into many 512kb data blocks called sectors. When one of them go bad, the drive uses a spare sector to replace the bad one so your drive can last years without reducing capacity. However, there are limited number of spare sectors. When they ran out, it triggers S.M.A.R.T. warning.

 

In your screenshot, current pending sector count is above 0, which means what I said above happened.

[ProjectBox153]

I would replace that drive soon. It seems to have been power cycled a lot, and 16,000+ hours is getting up there in age. Although I've seen drives with over 53,000 hours do just fine. It really depends on the drive.

[blbalsdfkjivbvwerlo3244534]

39 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

bad sectors. Hard drive storage spaces are divided into many 512kb data blocks called sectors. When one of them go bad, the drive uses a spare sector to replace the bad one so your drive can last years without reducing capacity. However, there are limited number of spare sectors. When they ran out, it triggers S.M.A.R.T. warning.

 

In your screenshot, current pending sector count is above 0, which means what I said above happened.

So as a consequence the drive starts losing empty sectors? Or does it just use random sectors that can contain data? Does that also mean i can just keep using it? Because if a sector is only 512kb then i'm not losing much space. Only until i get a new drive, because this one is nearly full anyway.

[Arika]

56 minutes ago, coop152 said:

So as a consequence the drive starts losing empty sectors? Or does it just use random sectors that can contain data? Does that also mean i can just keep using it? Because if a sector is only 512kb then i'm not losing much space. Only until i get a new drive, because this one is nearly full anyway.

in theory you can, however bad sectors generally come at short intervals because it means something with the drive is failing. eventually it will fall apart and you'll have a drive full of bad sectors and then it's useless. you should be fine to use until you get a new ones which i would recommend ordering one asap.

[demonix00]

Download either the western digital data lifeguard diagnostic tool or hard disk sentinel as both have more in-depth diagnostic tools and hard disk sentinel (even in trial) will give an estimate of the drives remaining lifespan.

[rcarlos243]

10 hours ago, coop152 said:

Is this cause for worry? I don't understand what most of these things mean.

 

The Raw Values are in Hexadecimal. I suspect you have a number of times where your computer was not properly shut down.

 

Alternatively, go to Function -> Advanced Feature -> Raw Values and select 10[DEC] and it should show the Raw Values in Decimal.

 

I also recommend you run chkdsk /f /r

 

/f – this option fixes errors on a volume

/r – this option also implies the /f and /p option. This option locates the bad sectors of your hard drive and recovers any readable information