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Hello, is that possible to say how much time my HDD will be living based on following S.M.A.R.T info

01 Read Error Rate 200 (200 worst) Data 0000000001
03 Spin-Up Time 186 (151) Data 0000000682
04 Start/Stop Count 092 (092) Data 0000002038
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 129 (129) Data 0000000231
07 Seek Error Rate 200 (200) Data 0000000000
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 090 (090) Data 0000001D3A
0A Spin Retry Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0B Recalibration Retries 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0C Device Power Cycle Count 099 (099) Data 0000000507
BF G-sense error rate 001 (001) Data 000000210E
C0 Power-off Retract Count 200 (200) Data 0000000030
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 064 (064) Data 0000063FD2
C2 Temperature 096 (085) Data 0000000033
C4 Reallocation Event Count 192 (192) Data 0000000008
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 100 (253) Data 0000000000
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 100 (253) Data 0000000000


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My system throws alerts that my hdd will be not working soon but I do not understand the reason, I checked for bad sectors and seems nothing found so it is intresting to know what exactly happened

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It looks like the "Reallocated Sectors Count" item is causing the error message. Utilities such as will not show any errors.

When the drive detects a bad sector it internally replaces it with a spare. The Reallocated Sectors Count is the number of sectors that have been replaced. This allows the drive to work even when there are errors. All of this is internal to the drive and is invisible to utilities such as chkdsk which have no way of knowing that anything is wrong. But there are only a limited number of spare sectors and when they are used up you have a serious problem.

There is no way of knowing how much you have. It might be today, or it might be six months from now. Best to backup your data now if you have not already done so and replace the drive.

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But there are only a limited number of spare sectors and when they are used up you have a serious problem.
How much serious? Do you know whats happened after that? And will I have a time to do any actions?

Also, If Reallocated Sectors Count will not be increasing is that mean I do not have to replace my hdd? Or if that process has begun that means close hdd death ? :)

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I see it but only on the last my message but not for all
 
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