Hi All,
Bought his machine exactly one year ago. About six weeks ago the hard drive started failing. It started being super slow, to the point that booting took minutes and copying all the data from it literally took days. In the middle of this it started to give SMART failure warnings.
I replaced the drive with another drive I had handy. This one had been working fine, but it only took a month before it started giving SMART failure warnings. It appears to be working fine, and chkdsk reported a couple of minor things but no major issues.
Thoughts? Is it just coincidence that the second drive might be failing? Or could there be a system or motherboard issue? Anything else I should be checking?
Thanks in advance for any replies.
Regards,
Anthony
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It may be the connector- that could result in some SMART errors.
Can you post a full smart status report? -
"WARNING! The drive ST9500325AS, 500.1 GB [S/N:5VE7KDTV] indicated a S.M.A.R.T. error condition. Immediately back-up your data and replace this hard disk drive! A failure may be imminent."
According to the software, it seems like the reallocated sectors count (3) is triggering the alarm bells. Everything else is showing OK.
Code:============================================================ This report created by Active SMART http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/ ============================================================ S.M.A.R.T. status Date: 2011/11/26 20:31:45 Model Name: ST9500325AS Serial number: 5VE7KDTV Capacity: 500.1 GB Firmware: 0004SDM2 Drive interface: ATA Current temperature: 36 °C (96 F) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attribute Name Threshold Value Worst Raw value ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 (01) Raw Read Error Rate 6 102 96 135721481 3 (03) Spin Up Time 0 98 98 0 4 (04) Start/Stop Count 20 100 100 942 [COLOR="Red"][B]5 (05) Reallocated Sectors Count 36 3 3 1992[/B][/COLOR] 7 (07) Seek Error Rate 30 73 60 24618681 9 (09) Power-On Hours 0 99 99 1646 10 (0A) Spin Retry Count 97 100 100 0 12 (0C) Device Power Cycle Count 20 100 37 912 184 (B8) End to End Error 99 100 100 0 187 (BB) Reported Uncorrectable Errors 0 72 72 28 188 (BC) Command Timeout 0 100 99 25770197001 189 (BD) High Fly Writes 0 100 100 0 190 (BE) Airflow Temperature 45 64 58 655425572 191 (BF) G-sense Error Rate 0 1 1 342991 192 (C0) Power-off Retract Count 0 100 100 0 193 (C1) Load/Unload Cycle Count 0 86 86 28601 194 (C2) Temperature 0 36 42 47244640292 195 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 56 50 135721481 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 0 254 (FE) Free Fall Protection 0 100 100 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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That can't be caused by the notebook- this particular SMART error means the actual platter is failing, if it was interface related (Ultra DMA CRC) that would be a different thing.
So it looks like a bad coincidence. -
OK, that makes sense. The drive I swapped in was a few years old.... Took it out of my Sony when I installed an SSD.
Thanks! -
Just to follow up, put in a new HDD and everything has been fine since. Did a fresh install of Windows 7 too so the machine is running really well.
Thanks again @downloads for the advice.
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