Need second opinion, is my HD failing?

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Richard Shaw wrote:
>> I've been having some quirky issues lately and decided to take a
>> look at the SMART data for the disk. There seems to be a large
>> count of errors in some of the categories.
>> 
>> === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data
>> Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes
>> with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST
>> THRESH TYPE UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate
>> 0x000f   087   086   006    Pre-fail Always       -
>> 13453278
> Maybe.
>> 3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   095   094   000    Pre-fail 
>> Always       -       0 4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100
>> 100   020    Old_age Always       -       45 5
>> Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail 
>> Always       -       955
> It has to be about out of spare sectors, I haven't ever seen one
> that high. This is your wake up call I believe.

That's a good result, not bad; those number count downwards.. that's
why the threshold is lower than the current or worst value.

See the manual page for smartctl for more information on interpreting
the output of the tool:

"Each Attribute also has a Threshold value (whose range is  0  to
255)  which  is printed under the heading "THRESH".  If the Nor-
malized value is less than or equal to the Threshold value, then
the  Attribute  is  said  to have failed.  If the Attribute is a
pre-failure Attribute, then disk failure is imminent."

Regards,
Bryn.