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anchicka
Asked: 2015-07-16 05:48:37 +0800 CST

Is my hard-disk doomed?

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SMART Data & Self-Tests Overall Assessment reports for both disks Disk is OK. What does this mean? According to the following two screenshots is my hard disk doomed?

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2 Answers

  1. All life is doomed eventually! ;-)

    But your hard disk looks like it's got a pretty healthy life ahead of it. Especially look at the last column: Assessment is OK everywhere!

    Interpreting all of your data is going to be too broad to answer here. For more information on SMART technology, have a look at this excellent Q&A.

    On the 5 bad sectors: the time that a hard disk was manufactured without any bad sectors is long gone: nowadays they have a number of spare sectors which are swapped out automatically without you even noticing. So yours has 5% of its spare sectors allocated already, which isn't a big deal. Mine has 140 sectors out of 200 allocated and I'm not worried (yet)... ;-)

    Which means you still have to run back-ups! (there are other ways to lose data then a failed hard disk)

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  2. I doubt it is a problem. In general I would expect the Assessment column to show something else than "ok".

    Besides that the general conclusion in the images is "Disk is OK, 16 bad sectors".

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