HDD sector errors

[ExtremyMan]

I have a very old Maxtor drive that I mostly use for games, photos and movies. Today I decided to open CrystalDiskInfo and noticed this:

http://imgur.com/t17Tzgo

Is the Hard Drive dying?

 

[Samat]

What's the reallocated sector count? That drive is ancient, might be time to backup all data on it and get a new drive.

 

[John_VanKirk]

Hello,
best to take a full image of the SMART data from CrystalDiskMark and post it. The numbers shown don't show any read or write errors. The temp has the intermediate yellow warning, but your other two drives are at about the same temperature and are reported as fine. Also in the Maxtor specs, it say proper working temp is up to 60 degrees centigrade, so not sure why the temp caution.

What you could do is download the full 30 day trial version of the HDTune Pro Disk analysis application and check the drive out from a second perspective. It will give you all the SMART data, and you can even run a non destructive drive scan for sector errors. Here is the URL http://www.hdtune.com. If it is not making any kind of noises, or clicking, that's a good sign.

The other thing to consider, is a new 1TB or 2TB 6Gb/s new SATA 3 7200 RPM drive costs around $50-70, which is 4 times faster and 5-10 times larger than the Maxtor. That doesn't make it any better than the Maxtor, just more reliable as the oldie does have 26000 hours on it. The specs didn't say on the Maxtor web site, but MTBF on average runs 50,000 - 100,000 hours for HDD's. Another point to consider is, are you backing up this Maxtor to any other source, such as OneDrive or DropBox? The OneDrive I think now has 5GB free max storage, but it could be 15GB. Certainly much bigger than the max 160GB from this drive. If there are important photos or data (not just games) on the drive, that should be considered as an important point of reliability.
Download the HD Tune Pro and let us know what you find.