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Should I be worried?

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/should-i-be-worried.181400/

ZTR
ZTR Original post #1
Feb 14, 2014 at 3:11 PM
So I recently did a SMART test of my primary HDD and this was the table:
*dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11980000/HDD.JPG

Should I be concerned and backup my data or its fine?
tkin
tkin #2
Feb 14, 2014 at 3:24 PM
Back up, back up, HDDs are very unpredictable, one moment you have 2 errors, next moment entire HDD crashes with your data, always backup critical data, HDDs are extremely unreliable as it is.
W
Feb 14, 2014 at 4:42 PM
keep an eye on these values & if they remain same for at least a week then you can keep using this hdd but with assumption of lower reliability.also like @tkin said always keep a backup of important data as there are cases where a perfectly fine hdd with no errors crashed & a hdd with error like yours continued working for 1-2 years.
ZTR
ZTR #4
Feb 14, 2014 at 9:39 PM
So these are the readings after a few reboots..

*dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11980000/HDD2.JPG
W
Feb 14, 2014 at 11:16 PM
seems like pending sector has been reallocated/fixed.just follow what i mentioned in my previous post.