My HDD is failing ?

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Passmark shows "Spin Retry Count" in orange color with a "Predicted TEC Date" 24 May 2009


http://webhostingneeds.com/tmp_fp/passmark_hdd.jpg

My drive info is

http://webhostingneeds.com/tmp_fp/DriveInfo.txt

Few hours back, Temperature Difference from 100 is shown in orange color.

I have installed DiskCheckup yesterday as at times my computer get slow, for example if i am playing a video, play back get dead slow for some time, then it start working as normal.

Is my hard disk failing ?

Thanks,

Boby

[David (PassMark)]

Based on the log, you have only monitored your drive for 1 day. This is not enough time to get an accurate trend. You need to look at how the values degrade over weeks or months. So I don't see anything in the screen shot that makes me think the drive is failing.

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UPDATE : This hard disk stopped booting on 27th. I added new hard disk, able to copy all data to new HDD. After 2 days, it completely stopped responding.

[David (PassMark)]

We'll it is great that the software predicted something that actually came true, but my earlier comment still stands, to have any hope of predicting future failure dates, you need a larger sample to get a better trend. And even then it is hit and miss.