HDD: how bad is this?

[NeuroticFish]

It's completely unrelated to Bitcoin, but I am sure that somebody knows what these numbers mean and can give me an answer.
So... I did fire up an older program to check the health of my HDD and it tells me... this:





The OS is on a SSD, the HDD is a bit more than 2 years old and I didn't really use it that much, so I find this surprising.
However.. how bad it is? Should I look for a new HDD?

Thank you.

[Thanasis]

Chances of HDD going corrupt is very less and when it is packed into a system then it won't happened as far as I know.

But you can afford ans SSD then just go for it,1TB variant nearly cost about $150 which is a more than enough storage for a normal user and moreover upgrading to SSD will imrove the overall performance of your system.

[nastyagav]

What is this program name?

[Thanasis]

What is this program name?

You can see the name of that application on top of that image.

It named as "Hard Disk Sentinel PRO".

[NeuroticFish]

Chances of HDD going corrupt is very less and when it is packed into a system then it won't happened as far as I know.

That's what I hope, but those numbers make me worry.

But you can afford ans SSD then just go for it,1TB variant nearly cost about $150 which is a more than enough storage for a normal user and moreover upgrading to SSD will imrove the overall performance of your system.

I have a smaller SSD for booting and for most important things, that will do.
The HDD is where I put the larger data, where the speed is not crucial, and it would be an ugly surprise to lose them.

[Thanasis]

Chances of HDD going corrupt is very less and when it is packed into a system then it won't happened as far as I know.

That's what I hope, but those numbers make me worry.

But you can afford ans SSD then just go for it,1TB variant nearly cost about $150 which is a more than enough storage for a normal user and moreover upgrading to SSD will imrove the overall performance of your system.

I have a smaller SSD for booting and for most important things, that will do.
The HDD is where I put the larger data, where the speed is not crucial, and it would be an ugly surprise to lose them.

Even the warning says it is not yet problem for the disk,only check the cables so they might calculate the health of HDD by its data transfer speed and obviously for an older HDD the speed will get reduced so nothing to worry as I said earlier.

If you have any important files on HDD then it is better to get a backup of it on a separate disk now itself because if there is a failure then you may need to spend $1000 or more to recover even a smaller file.

[NeuroticFish]

Even the warning says it is not yet problem for the disk,only check the cables so they might calculate the health of HDD by its data transfer speed and obviously for an older HDD the speed will get reduced so nothing to worry as I said earlier.

If you have any important files on HDD then it is better to get a backup of it on a separate disk now itself because if there is a failure then you may need to spend $1000 or more to recover even a smaller file.

I opened the laptop (I was afraid to do this...), plugged that HDD out then plugged in again and I'll watch the numbers.
For now they didn't increase, but if they'll do I guess that I'll buy another HDD.
Thank you.


Edit/Update, for posterity: it was definitely a cables / contact problem. Since I've plugged it back firmly I had no issues at all.