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How close to death is my hard drive?

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Mar 15, 20262622 views

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I ran Crystal Disk Info to look at the SMART information on my external 2 TB drive and it's reporting a "Caution" health status. The specific error is the Current Pending Sector Count, which is 196. I have tried power cycling the drive, and it didn't get fixed. Should I be worried yet? Is this a si…

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Quoting from SecurityNow! podcast number 81: STEVE: The problem is, and in fact the reason that we’ve always used the slogan “SMART is dumb” at GRC, is we see dead drives all the time where the SMART system says, oh, everything’s fine. LEO: It’s all…

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