HDD is Dying?

Crystaldiskinfo says that my HDD is on cautious status, I don't have much experience with HDDs so I'm wondering if I should be alarmed. The drive is probably a close to 2 years old. It came with my laptop.

I tried using CMD to check the status of my HDD using the command: wmic diskdrive get status
and all 3 were ok.

Should I be alarmed and change the HDD right away?

EDIT: I kept track of the Reallocated Sectors Count from July 20, 2019
Reallocated sectors count - 98 | 98 | 36

 

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The 2 other drives in my laptop are SSD drives, but the one that is failing on me is the hdd drive that came pre-installed with my laptop. I was just using it to store games/music/movies. I backed up most of the important files on my nvme for now but what does the info based on the crystaldisk info saying?

 

Post#2 tells you what it's saying. Will you do it?

https://www.partitionwizard.com/disk-recovery/reallocated-sector-count.html

 

Thats what I'm so confused about, I tried wmic diskdrive get status, chkdsk, and Seagate's own disk software to check for any bad sectors/errors and they all came back with either an ok or a pass from the software. Its only CrystalDiskinfo that states that the disk is faulty. I backed up all the files yesterday but should I continue to use the drive as my storage drive and wait till Amazon restock on their SSD?

Is Crystaldiskinfo the most accurate disk tool?

 

The most accurate disk tool is the one that says the drive may fail at any time. That is always correct.

If you value the data, either don't use the system or remove the drive and only power it up to copy (don't move) the data to the replacement SSD you get for it.

If the data is replaceable, wait for the restock to materialize. But don't think your luck will hold out indefinitely.

 

Thanks for the replies bro, it helped me clear my mind about this.

Decided to clone the hdd and swap that drive for another old Hitachi HDD that I had lying around. That will have to do until SSDs become available again.

Tested the faulty HDD on HD tune pro and it also told me the same warning.