My HDD Spin Retry Count increasing instead of decreasing?

Ricc

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Oct 3, 2009, 3:44:09 PM10/3/09

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Hey guys, I have 7 reallocated bad sectors and my Spin Retry Count is
increasing, now at 128 Current?

What Im confused about is, that I thought it should decrease, since
the treshould is 30?

Its a Toshiba 160GB Hard Drive.. Ive used different kinds of Programs
and they all show Current 128 / Worst 100 / Threshold 30 / Data 0 /
Status OK

Would be glad if anyone could help me, cheers...

Rod Speed

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Oct 3, 2009, 6:11:21 PM10/3/09

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Ricc wrote

> Hey guys, I have 7 reallocated bad sectors and my
> Spin Retry Count is increasing, now at 128 Current?

She's dying, Jim. You into necrophilia ?

> What Im confused about is, that I thought it
> should decrease, since the treshould is 30?

Thats not what the threshold is about.

If the spin retry count is increasing, you have a problem.

Not absolutely certainly with the drive itself, but since
you also have 7 reallocated sectors, it likely is dying.

> Its a Toshiba 160GB Hard Drive.. Ive used different kinds of Programs and
> they all show Current 128 / Worst 100 / Threshold 30 / Data 0 / Status OK

Post the Everest SMART stats for the drive.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

Franc Zabkar

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Oct 4, 2009, 2:45:19 AM10/4/09

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On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:44:09 -0700 (PDT), Ricc <ricca...@gmail.com>
put finger to keyboard and composed:

This one looks normal:
http://mpctimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/toshiba_u300_report.htm

It appears to me that, if there are no spinup retries during 50
start/stop cycles, then the cooked value of the Spinup Retry Count is
incremented by 1.

Does your SMART report show a Start/Stop Count (attribute 04) between
1400 and 1450?

- Franc Zabkar
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Arno

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Oct 4, 2009, 1:48:30 PM10/4/09

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Please post full raw SMART attributes.

The spin retry increases if the problem diminishes or goes away.

The attributes are given by the drive, so using different
programs is not supposed to give different values...

Arno

Franc Zabkar

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Oct 4, 2009, 3:45:03 PM10/4/09

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On 4 Oct 2009 17:48:30 GMT, Arno <m...@privacy.net> put finger to
keyboard and composed:

>Ricc <ricca...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Hey guys, I have 7 reallocated bad sectors and my Spin Retry Count is
>> increasing, now at 128 Current?
>
>> What Im confused about is, that I thought it should decrease, since
>> the treshould is 30?
>
>> Its a Toshiba 160GB Hard Drive.. Ive used different kinds of Programs
>> and they all show Current 128 / Worst 100 / Threshold 30 / Data 0 /
>> Status OK
>
>> Would be glad if anyone could help me, cheers...
>
>Please post full raw SMART attributes.
>
>The spin retry increases if the problem diminishes or goes away.

Actually there is no spin retry problem. What the cooked value is
showing is that a drive that has experienced 0 retries in 1000
spinups, say, is better than a drive with 0 retries in 100 spinups.

>The attributes are given by the drive, so using different
>programs is not supposed to give different values...

The OP wrote that he has "used different kinds of Programs and they
all show ..."