Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 HDD Problem

[Guest]

Hello everyone. About a month and a half ago I purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 HDD. Today I ran HD tune and I noticed that the spin retry count and an unknown attribute were highlighted in yellow. Here is a screenshot: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/228/hdtunescreenshotu.png/ Should I be worried about this?

Thanks in advance for your help

 

[Dr_JRE]

No, it's value is within threshold limits.

 

[fzabkar]

HD Tune's interpretation of SMART data is often seriously flawed. Instead I would recommend either of the following:

HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux):
http://www.hdsentinel.com/

HDDScan for Windows:
http://hddscan.com/

See this article for SMART info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

BTW, I suspect that the reasoning behind HD Tune's warnings may be that the Current value is very close to the Threshold (the Threshold level is the point at which a SMART failure or end-of-life condition is registered). If so, then instead of focusing on the difference between these two values, I would suggest to HD Tune's author that s/he should just focus on the Current value of the attribute. In both cases these values (100) reflect a perfect health score.