Do I need to change my HDD?

[PONTA]

Greetings,

Grateful for some help from the Community to confirm that I have problems with my internal hard drive.

I have used for the first time HWinfo64, and saw an exclamation mark on my HDD (Toshiba N300 4 TB SATA3)

So my questions are :

- Should I worry about any of these 3 exclamations marks?
- About "current pending sector count" I see 26 (was 27 on the first run), is that a lot?

From what i have read online I should keep an eye on hwinfo reports see if numbers are pumping, so I will do that for starters.

Thx for any help.

 

[Martin]

In my opinion those warnings don't indicate a serious condition.

 

[Dalai]

It's perfectly possible that drives with such SMART values will run just fine for years, but it's also possible that it dies quickly. I would definitely keep an eye on that drive, especially its sounds/noises and its SMART values. If they change drastically (for the worse) I'd swap the drive, and RMA the faulty one if possible.

Regards
Dalai

 

[PONTA]

Okay, thanks for your time.

I will keep an eye then.

Quick question: im usually using Smartdefrag to defrag this HDD, once per week. Should I stop doing that giving it's current state? Or it's ok?

 

[Martin]

That should be safe and have no significant impact on the drive state.

 

[PONTA]

Aight, thanks mate and have a good one.

 

[Leiwu]

try ssd