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For some reason, my pending sector count to be remapped is unbelievably high (2163 currently). I've seen it go up 20 in one week. But no sectors have been remapped. Dell's computer diagnostics utility reported no problems, smartctl -H returned PASSED, and I have yet to notice any problems with the hard drive.
So do I need to worry about such a high pending count?
Here are the results of smartctl -A
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SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 252 252 025 Pre-fail Always - 2062 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 36147 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 095 095 000 Old_age Always - 3261 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2087 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 002 002 000 Old_age Always - 999999 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 47 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 127 094 000 Old_age Always - 37 (Lifetime Min/Max 13/48) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 191990 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2163 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 19080 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0
Edit:
The disk is about 1 1/2 years old. Pending Sector Count was about 2000 when I started keeping an eye on it 2 weeks ago. I have never noticed any problems with the disk. If it makes any difference, I have a Dell M1530 dual boot Vista-Ubuntu. The hard drive is a Samsung HM160HI.
Edit:
Apparently half the problem was that I didn't (still somewhat don't) know how to interpret the data.
Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback.
https://superuser.com/questions/1218312/pending-sector-issue-does-this-mean-the-hdd-is-failing/1218317#1218317 – SDsolar – 2017-06-12T05:26:48.650