Crystaldiskinfo 8.17.14

[Catherine Rubeo]

Thehard drive, HDD or SSD, it the most important part of our PC, containing irreplaceable data. Unfortunately, it is not a matter of "If" a hard drive fails, but of "When". Using CrystalDiskInfo we can predict if hard disk failure is imminent, and backup our files in time.

Sometimes we might hear clicking sounds from the drive, or get file/folder related error messages. Most of the time, though, the drive will seem to work just fine, and we get a BSOD on the next reboot or a message like that...

It's good then that there is a system that can statistically predict hard drive failure. Its name is Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T) and it is part of any hard drive that has been manufactured the past decade.

The S.M.A.R.T protocol was developed by IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Conner, and Western Digital in 1995, based on an earlier system by IBM. It measures key characteristics of the HDD, such as the read error rate, reallocated sectors, seek error rate, etc. which can be used to predict hard disk failure.

Reallocated sectors are one of the most severe conditions for a hard drive. A single sector isn't the messenger of a complete hard disk failure by itself. But if the sectors are multiplying, it's a sure sign that something is wrong.

If we have a couple of "cautions" but not enough to affect the disk's health status, we should just keep an eye on them. In such a case, it's a good idea to run CrystalDiskInfo once or twice a week to see if there is any change.

So, we must not rush to replace a hard drive with a "Caution" health status. Instead, we should take a full backup of any essential files, which is something we should be doing on every hard drive, even the "Good" ones.

If however we get a "Caution" or a "Bad" health status, we should follow-up with a full disk scan, that could potentially discover deeper problems with the hard drive. On a future guide, we will cover the best disk checking software.

It's such a shame that some quite some Seagate disks uses a 32bit (or something) value system for some of the values, making the readout in the billions for many of the important/interesting values (also temperature reads as 81604378652

so I'd guess the developer has to make some function to detect and display other bit values properly.

These are my crystaldiskinfo results and I've read many forums but can't find solution.

Main problem is that my disk writing speed became very low(like 1-2 mbps). I've defragmented my disk two times(when it showed 9% and 10% fragmented) and now it is not even fragmented.

i downloaded Defraggler and Auslogics Disk Defrag just to see what they said and both programs say that the disk health is good

does that mean anything?are they falsely telling me it is in good health?

My disk was behaving oddly, so i figured to check if i had a failing HDD.

I do have a question, one of the 2 drives show "read error rate" (the ssd one isn;t showing this value, my HDD is) the end number is still 0, but i am curious to why it shows on one drive and not on the other.

First, make sure the drive has at least 20% free space, then run a disk defragmenter. If neither of those actions help, you can try to reinstall Windows, or connect the HDD on a different PC to see if the problem persists.

hey there so i have a lenovo laptop y5070 about 3 years old and a month ago my win 10 started freezing and i was hearing grinding noises so i took it and they said its a windows issue and they reinstalled a windows but a week ago the grinding noise came back and i thought windows is broken again after 3 restarts it came back fine and same thing happend yesterday and i think its hdd failure so i installed the program and it says caution the relocated sectors and pending sectors are yellow and i think all are above threshold any advise ?

Hello Guys here's a screen shot maybe you can give me some info as i know some drive may last forever like you state ! ( This was a new 3TB Drive got it on E-bay ? As you can see from theRunTime in the image)

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