casvalue.blogg.se - Crystaldiskinfo caution reallocated sectors count

When your hard drive encounters an error while reading, writing or verifying data it marks the sector as reallocated and then moves the data to a reserved area on the disk (spare sectors that it sets aside). Each sector is quite small, holding just 512B (bytes) of data. Reallocated sectors are parts of your hard drive’s platter that can no longer be trusted to safely store data. If you’re looking for tools to check your current reallocated sector count you can jump down to ‘How to check for reallocated sectors’ What are reallocated sectors? But you should seriously read #3 again, that one’s relevant to everyone. Depending on your specific situation, things may not be that bad. If this list made you panic, I apologize.

Or: If your hard drive is still under warranty, send it in for a replacement (but back it up first).

If your data is important to you, you should buy a new hard drive.

There is no fix to lower your reallocated sector count.

Reallocated sectors are bad sectors on your hard drive that have been moved to another part of the disk.

Let’s cut to the chase with a quick 5 point summary: Increases in reallocated sectors are one of the tell tale signs of a drive that’s dying – do not ignore the warnings. If S.M.A.R.T data for your hard drive is showing a number other than 0 next to “ ID 05 Reallocated Sector Count”, I’m going to be up front and let you know that this isn’t a good sign.

I have a 1 year old Toshiba P300,It's a really nice drive.

I have a 5 years old Western Digital WD10EZEX,works perfectly fine and no signs of failure - still going strong. That's why Seagate is the bread and butter of the data recovery industry.Īny brand new desktop drive from Western Digital and Toshiba are good quality and last for a long time. You did nothing wrong,the problem is that the drive is crap quality,Seagate normal consumer drives such as the Barracuda and Redwood and all laptop drives are low quality with high failure rates (The Barracuda is higher quality but still not on par with the competition) That's one of the reasons hard drives are used in data centers. The biggest killer of SSDs is writing to it,while the biggest killer of hard drives is a mechanical failure.