Best hard drive health software?  

RolandJS said:

ibeachmike, tell me more about the PSU failure; I was wondering if an UPS with AVR might have helped prevent or mitigate consequences of that failure.

The Cyberpower 1350 it was plugged into should absolutely have helped if the PSU failure was due to external forces. It's difficult to assess what caused the PSU to smoke and take down three drives with it. I expect it was a component failure internal to the PSU given the circumstances.

vipergg said:

SPECCY does a nice job and gives you all the SMART parameters . It looks a lot better in the program than it does here but it gives you a lot of info .


Manufacturer Seagate
Form Factor 3.5"
Heads 16
Cylinders 121,601
Tracks 31,008,255
Sectors 1,953,520,065
SATA type SATA-II 3.0Gb/s
Device type Fixed
ATA Standard ATA8-ACS
Serial Number 5VP70YKW
Firmware Version Number CC68
LBA Size 48-bit LBA
Power On Count 4118 times
Power On Time 952.4 days
Speed 7200 RPM
Features S.M.A.R.T., NCQ
Max. Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode SATA II 3.0Gb/s
Interface SATA
Capacity 931 GB
Real size 1,000,204,886,016 bytes
RAID Type None
S.M.A.R.T
Status Good
Temperature 78 °F
Temperature Range OK (less than 122 °F)
S.M.A.R.T attributes
Attribute name Real value Current Worst Threshold Raw Value Status
01 Read Error Rate 0 111 99 6 00022813FD Good
03 Spin-Up Time 0 ms 95 95 0 0000000000 Good
04 Start/Stop Count 8,262 92 92 20 0000002046 Good
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 0 100 100 36 0000000000 Good
07 Seek Error Rate 0 87 60 30 002327DA78 Good
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 952d 10h 74 74 0 000000594A Good
0A Spin Retry Count 0 100 100 97 0000000000 Good
0C Device Power Cycle Count 4,118 96 96 20 0000001016 Good
B7 SATA Downshift Error Count 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
B8 End-to-End error / IOEDC 0 100 100 99 0000000000 Good
BB Reported Uncorrectable Errors 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
BC Command Timeout 21 100 99 0 0000000015 Good
BD High Fly Writes (WDC) 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
BE Airflow Temperature 76 °F 76 67 45 0018130018 Good
C2 Temperature 76 °F 24 40 0 0000000018 Good
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 51 26 0 00022813FD Good
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 100 100 0 0000000000 Good
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 200 0 0000000000 Good
F0 Head Flying Hours 1417d 5h 100 253 0 00000084DD Good
F1 Total LBAs Written 645,145,311 100 253 0 00267422DF Good
F2 Total LBAs Read 4,094,621,012 100 253 0 00F40EF554 Good
Partition 0

Please do not use Speccy for SMART testing unless you view real values and understand the numbers.
End users cannot rely on the status column as it will display good on a drive even in the critical or caution stages.