Should I care about my HDD?

Here the screenshot of HD Tune:



Should I care about my HDD? Are these warnings important?

 

Backup your drive and replace it now.

You should never get a SMART warning, certainly not anything to do with re-allocation anyways.

If it is in warranty, Lenovo may replace it - call their support phone line to find out.

Remember - a hard drive contains all your data. If it fails, you will very likely loose everything, unlike failures of other components.

A 160GB drive is cheap to pickup. If you're using > 100GB, I'd replace with a bigger drive.

 

It's too bad. I can't have my HDD warranted by now. Hope that it'll not die so soon

 

just get a new drive from places like newegg.com they are only 60 to 70 for a 500 gig or something.

You should never continue to rely on a failing hd, because when it does fail, you will have trouble retrieving all the important information and files from them. I learnt the hard way with my T43 hdd.

 

my important personal data is always backed up at least 3 times, at different locations. From my country, it's not easy to buy from newegg.com, I'll get my T400 to support center as soon as possible. It seems that they'll keep the laptop before replace the HDD.

 

which country are you from?

 

I'm from Vietnam. Tax and shipping fee are extremely high, and, support service is not as good as many others country. They seems to not replace my HDD until they found some "bad sectors". oh, shame on me

 

But your laptop is relatively new, shouldn't it be in warranty?

 

yes, it's still in warranty. But they'll check my HDD and say: "It's OK, nothing's wrong". They will only replace it in case there're some bad sectors, or the HDD is totally failure. I'll call them tomorrow, but with low expectation.

 

if they continue to shrug you off with a warranty exchange, then post a message on the official Lenovo forum, detail the hardware problems and that the official warranty service is not willing to help you out.

 

Thank you. I'll try.

 

BACKUP YOUR SYSTEM NOW!!

the DMA CRC and reallocation errors (subsequently and likely resulting from the CRC error) are harder to prove an imminent HDD failure. There's a chance it could be controller related, or due to a poor connection, but enclosed in a warranted new laptop you shouldn't be get any S.M.A.R.T. warnings of any kind. HDD manufacturers will actually put down S.M.A.R.T. errors experienced as a legitimate option to RMA a drive when filling out the form.

Give them a screenshot of the program and insist you get a new drive with a different S/N. Personally, I wouldn't store anything on it--it's now a paperweight in my mind.