Question warning while using Hdtune health what should i do with my disk?

[nerahatiju]

hi, i got the following after i installed Hdtune on my disk:

https://ibb.co/wLD43pX

What should i do with my disk, in order to be able to keep it as long as possible?

In a poor economic state here...

Also, if i must replace my disc, what are the suggested steps that i should do, in order to have an image of my disk to the newly bought disk?
When i can afford one ofcourse...

 

[fzabkar]

Check for oxidisation.

http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=649

 

[seagate_surfer]

Hi, we recommend you to test your drive with the diagnostic software of the manufacturer. If the test fails you may contact the corresponding technical support.

 

[popatim]

I would do nothing yet. At least for this issue.
Current Pending Sectors are ones that the drive detected issues with and have scheduled them to be tested and recovered if needed.

If they fail testing then the drive will attempt recovery.
- If recovery was successful then data will be moved to a spare sector and your Reallocated Sectors count will increase.
- If recovery fails, data could not be recovered (ie-file is lost/corrupted now) and your Uncorrectable count goes up.

Can you check with another SMART program like HDSentinal or CrystalDiskInfo. Sometimes HDTune reports C6 having data when the others do not.

 

[fzabkar]

The Raw Read Error Rate attribute should be clean, ie its raw value should be 0. Instead it is reporting problems.

BTW, I would be wary of anything that WD's support tells you.

RAW Read Errors, help!
https://community.wd.com/t/raw-read-errors-help/15905/10

 

[popatim]

While I had to disagree with you, you certainly are more knowledgable on this than I, I have always found RRER RAW to be used for something other.

DID you mean the DATA should be zero?
I can run Smart on my HDD now, a Saegate, and get various RRER RAW values but the DATA remains at 0 for example.

 

[fzabkar]

The meanings of SMART attributes are not standardised. They vary between manufacturers, and even between models from the same manufacturer. Seagate defines its RRER attribute completely differently to WD and most others. In WD's case the raw value (ie data) should be 0, whereas in Seagate's case the raw value is a sector count, not an error count. I haven't found WD's official specification, but here are Seagate's:

Seagate SMART Attribute Specification:
http://t1.daumcdn.net/brunch/service/user/axm/file/zRYOdwPu3OMoKYmBObown . . . y1fEEQEbU.pdf

Normal SATA SMART Attribute Behavior (Seagate):
http://t1.daumcdn.net/brunch/service/user/axm/file/Vw3RJSZllYbDc86ssL6bofiL4r0.pdf

Seek Error Rate, Read Error Rate and Hardware ECC Recovered SMART attributes (my interpretation):
http://www.hddoracle.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=89

BTW, the WD forum thread I referenced shows you that WD's own staff have no idea how to interpret their own SMART data. In fact they quoted [pointlessly] from my Seagate article, claiming that the information came from their engineering department. This would suggest that WD's support staff are not privy to their own internal documentation, and instead resort to the Internet, just like the rest of us.