Installed scanner a few weeks ago and have given my systems a little while to settle down. I am now seeing a couple of SMART errors thrown by scanner and would appreciate any insight on whether I should be jumping up and down or not.
Error 1 is on the boot disk (250gb seagate 2.5") of my newly built NAS - scanner is flagging up 2 'recalibration retries', both times when the system restarts. I would not be concerned but it is a brand new drive, and none of the other 10+ drives monitored by scanner have a value above 0.
Error 2 is on a data drive (3tb seagate) in a different machine. The reallocated sector count has jumped from 10 to 25000+ in a few hours, and the drive has been disappearing from windows. This is seems obviously serious and a good candidate for replacement.
From my imperfect research, the drive showing error 2 is clearly going bad - but should I be worried about error 1?
Lastly, if there is a resource i should be referring to that would help me interpret the SMART results without cluttering up the forum please point me towards it!
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fazza
Hi,
Installed scanner a few weeks ago and have given my systems a little while to settle down. I am now seeing a couple of SMART errors thrown by scanner and would appreciate any insight on whether I should be jumping up and down or not.
Error 1 is on the boot disk (250gb seagate 2.5") of my newly built NAS - scanner is flagging up 2 'recalibration retries', both times when the system restarts. I would not be concerned but it is a brand new drive, and none of the other 10+ drives monitored by scanner have a value above 0.
Error 2 is on a data drive (3tb seagate) in a different machine. The reallocated sector count has jumped from 10 to 25000+ in a few hours, and the drive has been disappearing from windows. This is seems obviously serious and a good candidate for replacement.
From my imperfect research, the drive showing error 2 is clearly going bad - but should I be worried about error 1?
Lastly, if there is a resource i should be referring to that would help me interpret the SMART results without cluttering up the forum please point me towards it!
Thanks in advance.
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