(CrystalDiskInfo/Speccy) Help with Understanding Status of HDD

[vmzshjk]

Hello, I curiously checked Speccy a few hours ago, and it said that my HDD status was set to "Warning", yet all of the attributes on it were marked as "Good". I installed CrystalDiskInfo, and it's set to "Caution", mentioning two attributes.

First, here's Speccy's results:
Attribute name Real value Current Worst Threshold Raw Value Status
01 Read Error Rate 0 100 100 51 0000004D75 Good
02 Throughput Performance 0 252 252 0 0000000000 Good
03 Spin-Up Time 2360 ms 93 86 25 0000000938 Good
04 Start/Stop Count 8,127 92 92 0 0000001FBF Good
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 21 99 99 10 0000000015 Good
07 Seek Error Rate 0 252 252 51 0000000000 Good
08 Seek Time Performance 0 252 252 15 0000000000 Good
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 1510d 1h 100 100 0 0000008D91 Good
0A Spin Retry Count 0 252 252 51 0000000000 Good
0B Recalibration Retries 14,742 86 86 0 0000003996 Good
0C Device Power Cycle Count 8,030 93 93 0 0000001F5E Good
0D Soft Read Error Rate 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
BF G-sense error rate 188,834 82 82 0 000002E1A2 Good
C0 Power-off Retract Count 0 252 252 0 0000000000 Good
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 932,188 8 8 0 00000E395C Good
C2 Temperature 37 °C 63 47 0 00FFFF0025 Good
C3 ECC Rate 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
C4 Reallocation Event Count 21 99 99 0 0000000015 Good
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 182 88 79 0 00000000B6 Good
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 252 252 0 0000000000 Good
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 78,176 1 1 0 0000013160 Good
F0 Head Flying Hours 1483d 11h 100 100 0 0000008B13 Good
F1 Total LBAs Written 1,200,464 100 94 0 0000125150 Good
F2 Total LBAs Read 4,875,379 97 94 0 00004A6473 Good

Here are CrystalDiskInfo's results (suspected ones in asterisks):

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _51 000000004D75 Read Error Rate
02 252 252 __0 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 _93 _86 _25 000000000938 Spin-Up Time
04 _92 _92 __0 000000001FBF Start/Stop Count
*****05 _99 _99 _10 000000000015 Reallocated Sectors Count*****
07 252 252 _51 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 252 252 _15 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 100 100 __0 000000008D91 Power-On Hours
0A 252 252 _51 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B _86 _86 __0 000000003996 Recalibration Retries
0C _93 _93 __0 000000001F5E Power Cycle Count
0D 100 100 __0 000000000000 Soft Read Error Rate stab
BF _82 _82 __0 00000002E1A2 G-Sense Error Rate
C0 252 252 __0 000000000000 Power-off Retract Count
C1 __8 __8 __0 0000000E395C Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 _64 _47 __0 0036FFFF0024 Temperature
C3 100 100 __0 000000000000 Hardware ECC recovered
C4 _99 _99 __0 000000000015 Reallocation Event Count
*****C5 _88 _79 __0 0000000000B6 Current Pending Sector Count*****
C6 252 252 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 __1 __1 __0 000000013160 Write Error Rate
F0 100 100 __0 000000008B13 Head Flying Hours
F1 100 _94 __0 000000125150 Total Host Writes
F2 _97 _94 __0 0000004A6473 Total Host Reads

Here are my specs:

Manufacturer SAMSUNG
Business Unit/Brand Mobile
Model Capacity For This Specific Drive 250GB
Heads 16
Cylinders 30,401
Tracks 7,752,255
Sectors 488,392,065
SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number S1YKJB0Z244266
Firmware Version Number 2AC101C4
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 8030 times
Power On Time 1510.0 days
Features S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 232 GB
Real size 250,059,350,016 bytes
RAID Type None

Would appreciate knowing what this means for my HDD. Had it for almost 10 years, but still works fine for the most part. However, I must mention that since I'm using a laptop and on Windows 7, when I go to Hibernate, I've been hearing this snapping sound right before the machine powers off. Is this a cause for concern? Of course, I know well enough to start making backups, but when should I run off to get a replacement HDD?

Thank you so much.

 

[James Mason]

Do it now.
When it goes bad it'll get increasingly harder and more expensive to try and recover lost data from a dying HDD, assuming you even can.
Don't take the chance, fix the problem before it's "life threatening."

A new HDD is only like $50-70, trying to recover anything will start at like $1500.

 

[jenojaxx]

Understandin S.M.A.R.T. data is like sorcery or alchemy . it's impossible . A click when shutting down is ok , however , i'd copy my valuable files (family photos , videos , documents , cad drawings , etc.) to an external hdd . 500 Gb external hdd is around 50$ USD