Read Error rate.

[John]

I have just downloaded the new Diskcheckup V2, and have run the checks, and noticed i am getting a read error rate!

What does it mean. I understand that it has a threshold rate etc, but the computer does not appear to be suffering any ill effects Yet!

What is the suggested action, and how serious is it? I have attached a copy of the tests, so if someone out there can advise em as to what it all means in laymans terms i would be grateful.

DiskCheckup Version: DiskCheckup V2.1 Build: 1001
SmartDisk DLL Version: SmartDisk DLL SDK v1.0 Build: 1013
Time of export: 20:34:00 21-Jul-2008
Device ID: 0
Device Capacity: 343397 MB
Serial Number: 5NF0TDEK
Model Number: ST3360832AS
Firmware Revision: 3.04
Partitions:
C: 339224 MB
IDE Registers:
Features: 0x0
Sector Count: 0x1
Sector Number: 0x1
Cylinder Low: 0x0
Cylinder High: 0x0
Drive Head: 0xA0
Command: 0xEC
ID Sector:
Cylinders: 16383
Heads: 16
Sectors per track: 63
Cur Cyls: 16383
Cur Heads: 16
Cur Sectors/Track: 63
Bytes per track: N.A.
Sectors per track: N.A.
Gen Config: 3162
Buffer Type: 0
Buffer Size: 16384
Vendor Unique: 0 0 0
More Vendor Unique: 0x8010
ECC Size: 4
Double Word IO: 0
Capabilities: 12032
PIO Timing: 512
DMA Timing: 512
BS: 7
Current Sector Capacity: 16514064
Total Addressable Sectors: 268435455
Mult. Sector Stuff: 272
Single Word DMA: 0
Multi Word DMA: 7
SMART ATTRIBUTES:
ID Description Raw Value Status Value Worst Threshold TEC
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1 Raw Read Error Rate 71396547 OK 49 46 6 01 Sep 2008 19:31:49
3 Spin Up Time 0ms OK 97 97 0 N.A.
4 Start/Stop Count 985 OK 100 100 20 N.A.
5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 36 N.A.
7 Seek Error Rate 122845597 OK 81 60 30 N.A.
9 Power On Time 2169 OK 98 98 0 N.A.
A Spin Retry Count 0 OK 100 100 97 N.A.
C Power Cycle Count 1002 OK 100 100 20 N.A.
C2 Temperature 40 C OK 40 48 0 N.A.
C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 71396547 OK 49 46 0 N.A.
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 OK 100 100 0 N.A.
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 0 OK 200 200 0 N.A.
C8 Write Error Count 0 OK 100 253 0 N.A.
CA Direct Address Mark Error Rate 0 OK 100 253 0 N.A.
SMART HISTORY:
Attribute ID: 1 Attribute Name: Raw Read Error Rate
Date Value Worst
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Sat Jul 19 21:40:27 2008 51 46
Sat Jul 19 21:41:05 2008 51 46
Sat Jul 19 21:51:12 2008 51 46
Mon Jul 21 20:23:07 2008 50 46
Mon Jul 21 20:30:19 2008 49 46
Mon Jul 21 20:33:24 2008 49 46

Regards

[David (PassMark)]

There are no failed values. So nothing to worry about. For the extrapolated TEC date, you haven't taken enough samples over a long enough period for the number to be even half accurate.

[John]

Raw read error rate

Many thanks for the reply,

I am very impressed with the prompt reply. Your response is far quicker than a service i currently pay for.

Keep up the good work

Cheers