<blockquote style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">I would still get them. Right now my recommendations are Hitachi<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote">
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drives or any current generation SATA drive that is not made by<br>
Seagate.<br>
<br>
Backup all important / irreplaceable data and monitor the SMART raw data<br>
<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T</a>.<br>
<br>
Keep an eye on<br>
<br>
05 - Reallocated Sectors Count<br>
<br>
This value can be > 0 but if grows daily that is a sure sign the drive<br>
is having problems.<br>
<br>
196 - Reallocation Event Count<br>
197 - Current Pending Sector Count<br>
198 - Uncorrectable Sector Count<br>
<br>
The three above parameters should normally all be 0. However sometimes<br>
I have seen new drives have some values in these if you read a sector<br>
that was never written. A full format or writing to every sector<br>
corrects this.<br>
<br>
199- UltraDMA CRC Error Count<br>
This is a sign of a cabling or SATA failure. You want this number to<br>
be 0 but under 100 probably is not too bad over a drives 5 year<br>
lifespan.<br>
<br>
On top of all of this all drives have a URE rate which is on the order<br>
of every 20 or so TB of data read from the drive 1 sector will be<br>
unreadable.<br>
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John<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>Thanks for the info! Just checking on my laptop, here is my smartctl results: <a href="http://pastebin.com/mBNmv05r">http://pastebin.com/mBNmv05r</a><br><br>I am just confused as to whether I should be checking the results of the column VALUE (4th to the left) or the very last column, RAW_VALUE? I am setting up a RAID array in the coming weeks for the first time so knowing what to pay attention to for HD health is sure timely, thanks for your help.<br>
<br>Thanks<br>Bobby<br>