Check HDD Health

[Dolby]

If I want to sell my HDD, I often get asked the health - what's the best program to use ?

Thanks

 

[Rickster]

CrystalDiskInfo

 

[Dolby]

Thanks !

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

CrystalDiskInfo

+1

It has some restrictions on controllers though. If that does not work, try Hard Disk Sentinel

 

[Hemps]

+1 Hard Disk Sentinel

 

[DanDango]

+1 Hard Disk Sentinel

+1

 

[Ghost729]

How do you interpret the SMART raw values? Like which values should I be looking at and what sort of numbers should they be, regarding how close to failure is my HDD? I did change the format of the raw values to dec.

 

[Johnatan56]

How do you interpret the SMART raw values? Like which values should I be looking at and what sort of numbers should they be, regarding how close to failure is my HDD? I did change the format of the raw values to dec.

https://www.z-a-recovery.com/manual/smart.aspx

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

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You have a good description of how SMART works on wikipedia. But a quick intro:

Value: This is the raw value that the controller reports. Usually it's an easy to understand value (like power on hours or temperature), but sometimes it isn't (like the read error rate). Different manufacturers can use different structures and meanings for this data.

Normalized: This is the above value normalized so a higher value is always better. So a 114 in read/error rates is better than 113. Again, how your hard drive converts raw data to normalized value is vendor specific.

Worst: The worst normalized value that your drive had in the past (where 99 is likely the factory setting).

Threshold: When the normalized value is lower than this value the drive is likely to fail.

So, your hard disk seem to be ok. The value of the read error rate is not the times that your drive failed, but some data struct that depends on your disk manufacturer.
Javier
https://askubuntu.com/questions/20393/how-do-i-interpret-hdd-s-m-a-r-t-results

 

[SouthBit]

HDD Sentinel works well, and has good testing tools. Also, SMART readings are often not accurate or indicative of the true health of the drive.

 

[genetic]

Hard Disk Sentinel is by far the best.