Question about HD (Reallocated Sector Count: 98/36, Worst: 98)

[vgpranks]

Hey people, I made a test in my hard drives and HWinfo shows a warning (S.M.A.R.T.) in one of drives, the warning was:
[05] Reallocated Sector Count: 98/36, Worst: 98 (Data = 98,0)

It was with exclamation checkmark, as you can see in this screenshot:

I really don't understand what this 98/36 and worst thing means, I searched web and people were talking about threshold, but not sure if some of these numbers means my HD is dying.

Any help appreciated.
My english is not good, sorry for gramatical errors!

 

[drtweak]

Reallocated Sector Counts are sectors that went back but the drive was able to recover the data before it went totally bad and moved it to a backup sector that all hard drives/SSD's have.

I would keep an eye on it. if it goes up, or your PC starts to slow down replace the drive, or better yet replace it now. You may be able to clone it with software still to a new drive.

 

[seagate_surfer]

vgpranks, this would be a good time to start your back up plan if yo do not already have one. Follow these tips and you will thank yourself one day.

Basically you want:

3 copies of any data you don't want to lose
2 different mediums it's stored on (so 2 different drives in your computer, for example)
1 copy kept offsite, to prevent against disaster.

Best of luck.

 

[vgpranks]

Thanks for replies, but then, what the 98/36, worst 98 means?
Because in another good drives I saw a 100/10, worst 100, this one I assume is perfect state right? and this one is with green "V" checkmark!

 

[RolandJS]

If I correctly remember another post elsewhere -- 36 is the number of sectors presently re-allocated, and the total available is 98 re-allocations. Once this HDD goes from 36 to 98 -- the HDD is pretty much done for.