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Should we pre-emptively retire old hard drives?
40hz:
^ Agree with Mouser. That's 140 degrees F in my country. Way too hot for long term reliability. Get better fans or take something out of the case. :tellme:
Regarding your Current Pending Sector Count alert - yeah, that's not good:
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Event Codes: SMART+197
Attribute ID: 197 (0xC5)
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Hard drives, supporting this attribute
Samsung, Seagate, IBM (Hitachi), Fujitsu, Maxtor, Western Digital
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Description
Current Pending Sector Count S.M.A.R.T. parameter is a critical parameter and indicates the current count of unstable sectors (waiting for remapping). The raw value of this attribute indicates the total number of sectors waiting for remapping. Later, when some of these sectors are read successfully, the value is decreased. If errors still occur when reading some sector, the hard drive will try to restore the data, transfer it to the reserved disk area (spare area) and mark this sector as remapped.
Please also consult your machines's or hard disks documentation.
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Recommendations
This is a critical parameter. Degradation of this parameter may indicate imminent drive failure. Urgent data backup and hardware replacement is recommended.
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Think it's time to retire that drive and also seriously look into doing something about case heat if the new drive also ends up seeing temperatures in that range.
Luck! :Thmbsup:
mouser:
CAN A FAN BREAK DOWN WITHOUT THE USER BEING NOTIFIED?
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sure can. i've lost a cpu when the motherboard fan failed.
there are tools to check fan speeds that should/might be able to tell you which fans are running and at what speeds.
tomos:
CAN A FAN BREAK DOWN WITHOUT THE USER BEING NOTIFIED?
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sure can. i've lost a cpu when the motherboard fan failed.
there are tools to check fan speeds that should/might be able to tell you which fans are running and at what speeds.
-mouser (August 10, 2012, 08:54 AM)
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I've used SpeedFan in the past
MilesAhead:
Also there's a free program HWMonitor that shows fan speeds and other hw info. It's been awhile since I downloaded it. But my recollection is there's no setup needed. It should show fan speed for supported systems out of the box.
kyrathaba:
I've used SpeedFan in the past
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Anyone know if SpeedFan works as a stealthy (i.e., no registry dependencies) portable app?
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