Is this WD Caviar Green correct ?

[tio]

Hope someone can give me a replay on the condition on my harddrive.

 

Thanks !

 

 

Hard Drives

WDC WD5000AADS-00L4B1 ATA Device

Manufacturer Western Digital

Form Factor GB/3.5-inch

Business Unit/Brand Desktop/WD Caviar?

RPM/Buffer Size or Attribute 5400 RPM with 32 MB cache

Interface/Connector SATA 3 Gb/s with 22-pin SATA connector/SATA 1.5 Gb/s with 22-pin SATA connector (Mobile)

Serial Number WD-WCAUH1516254

Interface Unknown

Capacity 488GB

Real size 500?107?862?016 bytes

S.M.A.R.T

01 Read Error Rate 200 (200 worst) Data 0000000000

03 Spin-Up Time 138 (124) Data 00000017B2

04 Start/Stop Count 100 (100) Data 0000000168

05 Reallocated Sectors Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

07 Seek Error Rate 100 (253) Data 0000000000

09 Power-On Hours (POH) 084 (084) Data 000000302B

0A Spin Retry Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000

0B Recalibration Retries 100 (100) Data 0000000000

0C Device Power Cycle Count 100 (100) Data 000000015C

C0 Power-off Retract Count 200 (200) Data 000000000C

C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 200 (200) Data 0000000168

C2 Temperature 113 (104) Data 0000000022

C4 Reallocation Event Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

C5 Current Pending Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 (200) Data 000000000E

C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 200 (200) Data 0000000000

Temperature 34 ?C

Temperature Range ok (less than 50 ?C)

Status Good

Partition 0

Partition ID Disk #0, Partition #0

Disk Letter C:

File System NTFS

Volume Serial Number D46F3840

Size 466GB

Used Space 224GB (49%)

Free Space 241GB (51%)

[kroozer]

Here's a Wiki page on it. I wish you luck understanding it.

[DennisD]

If you have any doubts about your drive, you could run Western Digital's "Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows" utility.

 

This one is specific for your drive.

 

http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=608&sid=3&lang=en

 

Scroll down the page for all the details.

 

There are also freeware utilities available to carry out a series of tests to ascertain it's condition.

 

HD Tune: (Free Version)

 

 

 

Crystal Disk Info: (Freeware)

 

 

 

These give you a good, bad, healthy etc indication as to condition.

[redhawk]

05 Reallocated Sectors Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

07 Seek Error Rate 100 (253) Data 0000000000

C4 Reallocation Event Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000

Data = 0000000000 = Good.

While S.M.A.R.T does give you an indication of pending problems it cannot be solely relied upon.

I would suggest you Benchmark test your hard drive with HD Tune and see if performance drops or gets worse over time.

 

Richard S.