S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitoring system for computer hard disk drives to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.
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How can I read my hard drive's SMART status in Windows 7?
Is there a tool, application, gadget or similar which lets me read the S.M.A.R.T. state of my HDDs while using Windows 7?
Ideally, it should be something that can monitor my HDD temperature ...
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Making sense of S.M.A.R.T
First of all, I think everyone knows that hard drives fail a lot more than the manufacturers would like to admit. Google did a study that indicates that certain raw data attributes that the S.M.A.R.T ...
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What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?
I've seen programs in the past that were able to check the SMART status of a hard disk drive but it wasn't easy for me to find. Also, I think I had to boot into the CD in order to check on it. What is ...
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Do S.M.A.R.T. requests wear off the harddrive?
In a german ubuntu guide for the hddtemp program is claimed that every S.M.A.R.T. request wakes up the drive although no data is read. Because some harddrives that can park their head into a parking ...
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Util to check external USB Drive health?
I tried a few utils and none of them worked. Either USB wasnt supported or the drive was 'recognized'. I am trying to figure out if i should dump the drive or not. Its only a year old but the warranty ...
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Can I trust a hard drive that has had to reallocate sectors?
I ran this HD utility called CrystalDiskInfo that displays some of the S.M.A.R.T. information on my drives. It is displaying a "Caution" warning on one of my drives because its "Reallocated Sectors ...
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S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?
I'm working on my mom's computer and she freaked because it told her "There was an imminent hard drive failure about to occurr." I did some digging and found it was related to the S.M.A.R.T. ...
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How to access S.M.A.R.T. values when using RAID and Intel Matrix Storage?
We have a RAID 5 array using Intel Matrix Storage (i.e. a motherboard based RAID). One of the hard drives has started to make a grinding noise, and the array is currently rebuilding.
We'd like to ...
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Does Power-Management Affect a Hard-Drive’s SMART Statistics?
Among the various fields in a hard-drive’s SMART statistics, a few are flagged as “life-critical”, that is, those values determine the primary health of the drive and how long it may have left before ...
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Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it's been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I've run smartctl and HD Tune. Both tell me that I have bad sectors and ...
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Hard Drive Problem? SpinRite vs. S.M.A.R.T
The Toshiba hard drive in a Sony VAIO laptop went bad. I put in a Western Digital drive (WD1600BEVS-60RST0, firmware v4.01G04) from an HP laptop. Ran SpinRite at level 2. Found some bad sectors, ...
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How close to death is my hard drive?
I ran Crystal Disk Info to look at the SMART information on my external 2 TB drive and it's reporting a "Caution" health status. The specific error is the Current Pending Sector Count, which is 196. I ...
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CHKDSK at boot time on windows 7 without a reason
My new PC with a fresh windows 7 starts a chkdsk during boot time maybe once a week. The chkdsk always finishes with 0 problems and the computer restarts into windows as normal.
I always shutdown ...
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65537 bad sectors on my 320Gb usb drive. Is it really dead?
After 222 days of usage my external usb drive's S.M.A.R.T. system warned about having too many bad sectors on the disk (65537 reallocated sectors).
I tested it with badblocks -svw and no bad block ...
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Hard drive had reallocated sectors…but now it magically doesn't! Can I trust it?
Last week my SMART diagnostics utility, CrystalDiskInfo, reported that the external hard drive that I was saving my backups to had suddenly reported 900+ reallocated sectors. I double-checked to ...
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Long term monitoring of SMART values
I am searching for a free software that runs on Windows 7 and that regularly read the SMART values from my local drives and saves them in a local database for visualization.
Such a software would be ...
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What tools are available for understanding the workings of modern storage like SSD and Hard Drives?
My knowledge of storage Hard Drives and SSD is getting out of date and I would like to know what tools are available to read more extensive SMART and other data from modern drives than just "SMART ...
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Disable S.M.A.R.T. in Windows 7?
Before anyone tells me not to disable S.M.A.R.T I've confirmed in the BIOS that the drive is actually reporting it's okay. Windows is misreading whatever reports S.M.A.R.T. status.
I would like to ...
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What does Raw Read Error Rate mean in SSD SMART?
I downloaded trial version of HD Tune Pro and I'm using it to benchmark my hard drives. In Health tab of SSD I found Raw Read Error Rate property. What does this property say about my hard drive?
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Hard disk with trustworthy SMART support
Which hard disk drive do you suggest with trustworthy SMART diagnostics? That is, a hard disk that can truthfully report sector reallocations and other pre-failure indicators.
I'm asking this because ...
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Catastrophic HDD performance degradation
A Seagate Barracuda 500GB hard drive has recently (a few weeks ago) undergone a firmware upgrade. (from CC38 to CC49 firmware version)
There were also lightning storms in the area during the last week ...
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HDD health - what do the numbers actually mean?
Defraggler had a little tool that shows the health of the HDD.
But I'm unsure what this all means. Could someone explain them, and which values are good and which are bad?
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How to fix high Load_Cycle_Count laptop drive (TOSHIBA MK6006GAH in Vaio TX1XP)?
Hoping someone knows exactly what's going on here. It seems this drive has some combination of aggressive power saving settings and Ubuntu defaults that has massively increased the Load_Cycle_Count ...
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Are my hard drives dying?
Yesterday I came home from work to notice that not only had my PC reboot, it was stuck in the BIOS detecting hard drives. I eventually got the machine to boot but once I got into Windows it locked ...
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Should I care about my HDD?
This is screenshot of HD Tune:
Should I care about my HDD? Are these warnings important?
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Seriousness of a “Smart” disk error. How long will it last?
I have an 1 TB data disk and the bios and Windows are reporting a "Smart" error. At least, I get a Smart event but it doesn't indicate how serious the failure could be. My system is about 6 months ...
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New hard disk shipped with reallocated sectors. Should I worry?
I just bought a new ST3000DM001 (Seagate Barracuda). I ran "badblocks" on it and no problems were found, however CrystalDiskInfo reports "Reallocated Sectors" value of 1.
Should I worry? Or is this ...
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Can I trust this value in S.M.A.R.T. data?
I scanned my hard drive with HD Tune and I'm getting the following data:
HD Tune: ST9120817AS Health
ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read ...
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Interpreting Hard Drive status from S.M.A.R.T. results
I had Windows running CHKDSK on a drive at boot recently, I had to cancel every time because it took more than a day once and I didn't have that much time. I immediately backed up the data and ...
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Is there any way to reset the SMART data of hard disks?
I want to reset the "worst" case of the SMART's read error rate (currently at 100/max). The reason is simple: I don't want to be hassled by (1) the "press F1 to continue" for the error message at ...
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How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an "offline uncorrectable sector" appeared in the SMART status.
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age ...
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Howto interpret SMART-Attributes?
I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol for linux). However I don't know how to interpret the attributes. More specifically:
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How to force a remap of sectors reported in S.M.A.R.T C5 (Current Pending Sector Count)?
The S.M.A.R.T C5 value of my Samsung HM640JJ Hard Drive (in an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop) is "yellow status = caution"
C5 was 10 yesterday, and it's 21 today.
C4 (Reallocation Event Count) = 0 and 05 ...
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How do I get a report of HD smart data in FreeBSD 7.x/8.x
Is there a simple way to convince FreeBSD 7.x or 8.x to give me SMART data on hard drives? Preferably from the command line since I normally run these systems as headless servers.
I've been spoiled by ...
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Reliability of S.M.A.R.T.?
I've been using ActiveSmart to monitor my hard-drives health for a few weeks now, and its telling me my brand new 1.5 TB hard-drive is half-dead already. About on-par with one of my hard-drives which ...
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Installed Ubuntu 11.10, getting hard disk health warnings
I'm getting hard disk health problem warnings...
When I click the "examine" button the disk utility pops up. None of my drives are reporting any major issues, and the very first drive doesn't even ...
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Will my hdd fail?
I'm running badblocks in parallel on 2 identical hard drives. The problem is that /dev/sda has already finished without error the tests but /dev/sdb it at 363353920/488386583 (about 75%) but didn't ...
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good application to detect drive failures
Right now, i've got a machine with several drives in it, of various size/make, in various configurations. I'm running Windows 2008R2 server.
Every once in a while, i will hear one of the drives ...
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Linking two networks that have a common device
I recently bought a Samsung Smart TV having in mind to connect it to the Internet. Because my router is very far from it and not wanting to buy an expensive wireless for the TV, I created a homemade ...
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cannot format bad hard disk
I think I have a problem with my hard drive.
I tried to boot the system, and it was taking a long time. After a while it said that the drive was not bootable.
I tried running check disk, but it was ...
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Disk health status warning. Should I be alarmed?
I ran HDTunePRO today and saw that my disk has a Current Pending Sector warning:
I read in wikipedia that the lower this attribute is the better and that it is a "Potential indicator of imminent ...
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S.M.A.R.T. broken sectors
Recently I received my hard drive (LaCie) that I've sent away for warranty, my disk failed, and I used Palimpsest Disk utility to check if anything was wrong in the S.M.A.R.T Status. And it said that ...
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Could there be data loss on hard drive due to reallocated sectors?
The SMART data for one of my hard drives indicates that it has some reallocated sectors. I've read that a bad sector will only be reallocated on a write operation (meaning the original data is being ...
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New Sony Vaio S15 HDD clicking sound
I have a 3 day old S15 vaio. The performance is ok. No freezing or anything like that.
But from the hdd I hear a clicking sound. Not a continuous sound. Typically I hear it when I am not touching ...
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OEM SSD w/ Thinkpad T430 - with only 1 SMART attribute, how should I tell wear?
I recently purchased a Thinkpad T430 with a 128GB SSD. I'd like to get an idea of how well the SSD is holding up, so I install CrystalDiskInfo and look at the list of SMART attributes.
Unfortunately, ...
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Is my hard drive failing?
I'm beginning to worry about my ~3yr old WD Green drive. In the last few days i've noticed that my media player is acting weird, it won't move to the next track after a song has finished and also ...
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Hard drive misbehaving, SMART and manufacturer diagnostics pass. Should I replace it?
My laptop is an Asus G50Vt-X5, which came with a Seagate Momentus HDD. After owning this computer for a while, I added a second HDD from an older Toshiba laptop that had a broken screen. Both hard ...
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Is there a S.M.A.R.T. for Flash Drives?
There's a technology called S.M.A.R.T. that tells you when a HDD is about to go bad. Is there a similar technology for SSD/Thumbdrives?
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hard drive pending sector count
For some reason, my pending sector count to be remapped is unbelievably high (2163 currently). I've seen it go up 20 in one week. But no sectors have been remapped. Dell's computer diagnostics utility ...
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What is SandForce_Internal?
According to palimpsest on my new OCZ Vertex 3 120 GB SSD, S.M.A.R.T. attribute ID 234 is
Uncorrectable ECC Count
Number of uncorrectable ECC errors
I've been watching this value, and it ...
