Hard drive fails SMART but no reallocated sectors

[Shawn]

I have a Dell laptop running Windows 10 preview. It has a 128GB mSATA SSD and a 1TB SATA HDD. Every time I tried to upgrade to the latest build it would reboot and do a full surface scan on my mechanical drive that lasted hours and then would reboot and roll back to the previous build saying that the upgrade failed.

Finally on my last attempt to upgrade the filesystem got corrupt and would hang on boot. I had to put the HDD in another computer and write zeros to the drive so that I could boot from the cd without the computer freezing.

BTW, other computer's BIOS said that the drive has failed the SMART checks.

Put it back into my dell laptop and do a clean install of Windows 10 Insider Preview and everything seems to work, but I did a check with HDDScan and this is the SMART results:

Model: ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB
Firmware: 2AR10002
Serial: S2TBJB0C226206
LBA: 1953525168

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.3
Report Date: 5/3/2015 1:00:09 PM


 Num  Attribute Name  Value  Worst  Raw(hex)  Threshold  

 001 Raw Read Error Rate  001 001 0000000000-8A5E 051 

 002 Throughput performance  252 252 0000000000-0000 000 

 003 Spin Up Time  089 089 0000000000-0D84 025 

 004 Start/Stop Count  096 096 0000000000-132B 000 

 005 Reallocation Sector Count  252 252 0000000000-0000 010 

 007 Seek Error Rate  252 252 0000000000-0000 051 

 008 Seek time Perfomance  252 252 0000000000-0000 015 

 009 Power-On Hours Count  100 100 0000000000-073C 000 

 010 Spin Retry Count  252 252 0000000000-0000 051 

 011 Recalibration Retries  100 100 0000000000-026B 000 

 012 Device Power Cycle Count  095 095 0000000000-168F 000 

 013 Soft read error rate  100 100 0000000000-0000 000 

 181 Unknown Attribute 100 100 00000000C1-D96B 000 

 191 G-sense Rate/Servo tracking  100 100 0000000000-0051 000 

 192 Emergency Retract Count  252 252 0000000000-0000 000 

 193 Load/unload Cycle Count  100 100 0000000000-26CB 000 

 194 HDA Temperature  056 044 44 C  000 

 194 HDA Temperature Maximum 056 044 56 C 000 

 194 HDA Temperature Minimum 056 044 12 C 000 

 195 Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 000 

 196 Reallocation Event Count  252 252 0000000000-0000 000 

 197 Current Pending Errors Count  100 100 0000000000-006E 000 

 198 Uncorrectable Errors Count  252 252 0000000000-0000 000 

 199 UltraDMA CRC Errors  100 100 0000000000-0027 000 

 200 Write Error Rate  100 100 0000000000-008B 000 

 240 Heads Flying Hours  100 100 0000000000-071A 000 

 241 Total Host Writes  096 094 0000000058-D728 000 

 242 Total Host Reads  095 091 0000000075-5610 000 

 254 G-shock/Free-fall Event Count 252 252 0000000000-0000 000

It says it failed the Raw Read Error Rate (001) and Current Pending Errors Count (197) and UltraDMA CRC Errors (199) have warnings. However no reallocated sectors.

A bug in an early build of Win10 issued some command that prevented the drive from even spinning up. I had to use some bootable cd to get the drive even be recognized again. Don't know if that caused the errors or if it is actually failing.

I don't really care about losing any data on it. It's only even in this laptop so that I can boot windows from the mSATA drive. BIOS will only boot from SATA so it reads the HDD first before booting.

 

[Burpo]

It's a Samsung SpinPoint drive.. You haven't chucked it yet? Personally I like throwing them with my finger on the corner, so it spins & points as it bounces off the street. Samsung SpinPoint's barely make warranty. Junk
Read the reviews.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152291
I used to have a drawer full that I would try various repair techniques on. Street sweeper got rid of them for me

 

[Cerb]

High pending with no reallocated means you've been reading, but not writing, to the problem sectors. Once you write to the pending sectors, they'll either go away or be reallocated. Write over the free space, and you'll likely trip the reallocated sectors attribute, too.

 

[Burpo]

You can get a Toshiba @ Walmart for $55..
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Toshiba-2.5-SATA-1TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/21886436

 

[inachu]

You can get a Toshiba @ Walmart for $55..
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Toshiba-2.5-SATA-1TB-Internal-Hard-Drive/21886436

In my experiences with seagate VS toshiba. Toshiba hard drives are much faster.

 

[jji7skyline]

I've got a Samsung hard drive in my brother's computer still going strong... are all Samsung hard drives rubbish or just specific models?

 

[Xtrem]

I've got a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 and it's been running fast and steady as a champ

 

[Burpo]

Let us know when it gets to 70,000 hrs like my 8 yr old WD..

 

[jji7skyline]

Let us know when it gets to 70,000 hrs like my 8 yr old WD..

Wow. My oldest hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda with 15 000 hours of uptime.

 

[Burpo]

My bad.. I gotta quit guesstimating when I have the utilities to check it. Forgot I had it unplugged for awhile.. 55,000 hrs in 7 yrs..

 

[Laputa]

Goodness 55k hrs!!! Good thing they no longer make parts for you to rebuild it:B

Try Hard Disk Sentinel, it will give you a better idea of what's about to come on your drive. Maybe time to budget for another drive for Windows 10.