SMART status question

[Thermaltake]

Hi I have WD portable SE 1TB disk, and in aida64 (latest version) SMART is reporting exclamation mark on C5

 

 

but in Wd Data LifeGuard program SMART is reporting everything OK with that green check and with 0 Status

 

 

is just some kind of bug or what ?

[Fiery]

AIDA64 warns you about the fact that there's a single pending sector on your HDD. You may want to check it out with another software like HDSentinel as well:

http://hdsentinel.com

Regards,

Fiery

[Thermaltake]

I did, and it's saying same as aida, do I have to worry I know in sentinel this error can be corrected or should I report this to WD to replace my drive, what do you think ?

[Fiery]

I don't think such an issue makes your driver eligible for a replacement or repair. It's not a re-allocated sector (a.k.a. bad sector), but only a pending sector. You could call it a "suspicious sector" that may or may not become a bad sector. What I would do is install HDSentinel and keep it running, and configure its alerting system to warn you about any further issues that may come up. That pending sector may mean nothing, or may be a "teaser" of worse things to come. It's hard to tell which one, at this time.

[Thermaltake]

I get it, I contacted Wd to see what they will say, if nothing I will continue using it, I see that I can correct that 1 pending sector with sentinel, what do you think should I do it ?

[Fiery]

I'd just keep using the drive with HDSentinel monitoring it in the background. I use HDSentinel on my main machine, even though I have no HDDs or SSDs with such pending sectors (yet)

[Thermaltake]

Okay, tnx for info.