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| Thread ID: 111442 | 2010-07-27 07:12:00 | Reported HDD failure imminent! | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1122806 | 2010-07-30 01:51:00 | Also, when reinstalling(if this is the case) enable AHCI just incase you ever want to use it later without too much hassle. | PCT Joe (15018) | ||
| 1122807 | 2010-07-30 02:13:00 | SMART tells you SFA, seatools works on pretty much every drive I've tried it on. I use SMART all the time, it's very useful when you find a drive has 20 reallocated sectors and is gaining more every week. Especially when Seatools gives it a clean bill of health, but with faulty sectors steadily increasing it's fairly obvious the drive is dodgy, you should backup if you haven't already and prepare to get a new drive. Seatools will only tell you something is wrong once an attribute reaches a certain threshold. If the limit was 200 bad sectors but you have only 20 (although increasing) Seatools won't tell you there is anything wrong (when there clearly is) You might be confusing this with the fact the SMART can only predict about 50% of failures HDAT2 is a much better testing program, which works on all drives, and shows SMART values for all drives (Seatools doesn't) |
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