S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring program

[LOUISSSSS]

hey besides everest and speedfan, any good small programs to monitor smart activity? i wanna know the temps of my 2 hard drives..

 

[powerMarkymark]

Hard Drive Inspector.

It has a 30 day free trial download.

Marc

 

[LOUISSSSS]

hmm just found hdtune from guru3d.com, anyone use this?

 

[cessation]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
hmm just found hdtune from guru3d.com, anyone use this?

Yep, that's what I use. Gives more detail than a lot of programs you pay for.

http://www.hdtune.com/

 

[LOUISSSSS]

what does it mean when you're using hdtune and it says i have an error with "seek error rate" and the whole line is highlighted in red.
and spin retry count is highlighted in yellow..
health status: failed
i did the error scan and came up with no errors.. what seems to be my problem?

 

[cessation]

I'm guessing the lines marked in yellow are when the program is trying to warn you something might be wrong. I had some bad sectors on one drive and that line was marked yellow. I have a brand new seagate 250g Sata 7200.9 and the spin retry is marked yellow. My friend has the same drive but pata version and it also has a yellow highlight. So I'm guessing the spin retry on my seagate drive is fine, a error on hdtune's part I think. I'm guessing red is really bad though 😱

You could download software from the manufacturer of your drive to see if something is really wrong.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
what does it mean when you're using hdtune and it says i have an error with "seek error rate" and the whole line is highlighted in red.
and spin retry count is highlighted in yellow..
health status: failed
i did the error scan and came up with no errors.. what seems to be my problem?

SMART errors might not show up in a chkdsk or simple surface scan. But if there's a SMART error, 1) The drive is warning you that its diagnostics detect a problem, and 2) run the manufacturer's disk utilities on the drive SOON. They should detect it and generate an error code so you can get a replacement, assuming it's still under warranty.

 

[RebateMonger]

I have yet to ever get anything useful out of S.M.A.R.T. 🙁

I've had drives fail with no SMART errors at all.
And I've had drives that I KNOW have problems show no SMART errors.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
I have yet to ever get anything useful out of S.M.A.R.T. 🙁

I've had drives fail with no SMART errors at all.
And I've had drives that I KNOW have problems show no SMART errors.

Funny thing is, I've seen some drives that start to develop new bad sectors, even as many as 50, and yet SMART still says that everything's "within tolerance" and so it doesn't sound the alarm. And I've seen computers that have SMART enabled in BIOS, and they display a warning - for a fraction of a second, then they just continue to boot anyway.

 

[orangat]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
I have yet to ever get anything useful out of S.M.A.R.T. 🙁

I've had drives fail with no SMART errors at all.
And I've had drives that I KNOW have problems show no SMART errors.

? Did the problem drives show any issues with reallocated sectors in SMART?