Replacement hard drive, already SMART warnings

[thoughton71]

Hi folks, I had a 5 year old 6GB hard drive failing with various SMART warnings. It was suffering from intermittent bootup problems and funny noises etc. I replaced it with a new 80GB drive, but within a week I started getting the same symptoms! Is this a sign that it is something else other than the drives causing the errors?

I tried Active Smart and got these results, although I don't know if they are useful. In the original report spin Up Time and Temperature were in red.

Can anyone shed any light on the matter? Thanks!


This report created by Active SMART (

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S.M.A.R.T. status
Date: 11 September 2006 19:49:38

Drive model: SAMSUNG SP0842N
Serial number: S0DWJ30L347369
Capacity: 80.0 GB
Firmware Revision: BH100-35
Drive interface: IDE
Drive temperature: 44 °C (111 F)

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Attribute Name Threshold Value Worst Raw value
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1 (01) Raw Read Error Rate 51 100 100 0
3 (03) Spin Up Time 25 1 1 32896
4 (04) Start/Stop Count 0 100 100 70
5 (05) Reallocated Sector Count 10 253 253 0
7 (07) Seek Error Rate 51 253 253 0
8 (08) Seek Time Performance 15 253 253 0
9 (09) Power-on Hours Count 0 253 253 28
10 (0A) Spin Up Retry Count 51 253 253 0
11 (0B) Calibration Retry Count 0 253 253 0
12 (0C) Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 38
187 (BB) Unknown attribute 0 253 253 0
190 (BE) Unknown attribute 45 106 79 44
194 (C2) Temperature 0 106 79 44
195 (C3) ECC on the Fly Count 0 100 100 85894
196 (C4) Reallocation Event Count 0 253 253 0
197 (C5) Current Pending Sector Count 0 253 253 0
198 (C6) Off-line Scan Uncorrect. Sector Count 0 253 253 0
199 (C7) Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 0
200 (C8) Write Error Count 0 100 100 0
201 (C9) Detected TA Count 0 253 100 0

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[kestrel1]

It could be the drive going faulty, but I would try the hard drive in another machine with SMART turned on & see if you get the same problems. If you do, get the drive replaced under warranty. It could be the SMART detection that is at fault on your motherboard. Have you changed your IDE cable, as if that is faulty it could also cause problems.

 

[thoughton71]

Thanks for the reply, I will try a new cable first, then see about moving it to another machine.