S.M.A.R.T. and my Hitachi drive

[faye]

Hi, got this drive for about 2 to 3 months.,

it is the 8mb sata 80gb drive.

i installed the S.M.A.R.T. utilities to test the stability of my drive.

I do BT., but not every nite. may be at most 3 nites a week.

when i right click my drive/smart, i see the reliablity dropped a bit., now it is about 5/7 (0 is pre-failure)

but after a few reboots, it will max 7/7 again and once i BT, it will be dropped.

So..
is the rating correct?

 

[zephyrprime]

Hmmm... I don't know. Try a SMART utility that's more detailed like ActiveSMART.

 

[faye]

are there any free utilities?

 

[LED]

I wouldn't worry about it as SMARTY pants was orginated to read off of PATA and all is well after rebooting. I don't even use those Uts cause when software tries to undermine hardware, I'm cautious but just back up regulary just in case...

 

[pookie69]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime
Hmmm... I don't know. Try a SMART utility that's more detailed like ActiveSMART.

Just d/l'ed and tried out a trial version of ActiveSMART of my PATA HDDs >>> wow - didnt know it was possible to monitor all those various parameters of your HDDs. Seems pretty cool to me.

Got OK for everything 🙂 >>> gives me some confidence in my IBM HDDs as ive had them for a while now and abuse the hell outta them as anything. Although... im not sure how good these kinda software monitoring things really are... 😕

Anybody monitor their HDDs performance regularly for any good reason?

 

[Accord99]

You can also use Lavalys Everest to monitor your SMART values for free. While SMART won't catch everything, it does give you up-to-date readings on the number of bad and reallocated sectors so if you see increases there, you know that there will be problems soon.