Hard disk health and reliability analysis

Almost every EIDE or SATA hard disk includes S.M.A.R.T. data. That information is collected by the drive itself and contains data that the manufacturer considered relevant to check reliability. The data is made up of several attributes that have a current value, a worst one, a threshold, some raw data, and some flags. Basically, when any attribute's current value is below its threshold, the hard disk is considered unreliable and likely to fail. By using several techniques, this report tries to give a wider range of information, basing its analysis on advanced comparisons with normal values based on real hard disks and on expert-like checks. The final results are not to be taken as an absolute truth, but they are almost as good as a professional expert advice about your hard disk status.

Your hard disk is a Maxtor 96147U8 with firmware BAC51KJ0.
Your hard disk is not reporting its temperature.
This is normal for this hard disk model.

  Attribute   Current   Raw
Raw Read Error Rate 253 00110005BF72
Spin Up Time 224 217A00000048
Start/Stop Count 253 0000000005C0
Reallocated Sector Count 253 000000000000
Read Channel Margin 253 000000000000
Seek Error Rate 253 000000012F6E
Seek Time Performance 252 83A700029C42
Power On Hours Count 232 00000006C9B0
Spin Retry Count 244 00090000005D
Calibration Retry Count 253 00000000005E
Power Cycle Count 249 0000000006DC
Reallocated Event Count 253 000000000000
Current Pending Sector 253 000000000000
Offline Uncorrectable Sector Count 253 000000000000
Ultra DMA CRC Error Rate 199 0000000063F8
Write Error Rate 253 000000071D0E
Soft Read Error Rate 253 00040005BF72
TA Increase Count 253 00000005BF72
Run Out Cancel 253 00000005BF72
Shock Count Write Opern 253 00000005BF72
Shock Rate Write Opern 253 00000005BF72
Spin High Current 247 00060000005D
Spin Buzz 250 00030000005D
Offline Seek Performance 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 96 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 97 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 98 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 99 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 100 253 000000000000
Unknown attribute 101 253 000000000000

All the attributes of your hard disk are above the S.M.A.R.T. thresholds set by the manufacturer. This is good.

The overall fitness for this drive is 93%.
The overall performance for this drive is 93%.

The link to get back and see a new report about this hard disk in the future is this. Consider that new hard disks and new checks are added over time.


DISCLAIMER: this report does its best to highlight issues and warnings related to your hard disk. It cannot be held responsible for any mistake. This page and its results cannot be used in any other way but the one defined by its author.