Do I need to change my HDD?

PONTA

Member
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.
 
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Dalai

Well-Known Member
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

Member
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?
 
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