Question: Hi.
I’m trying to figure out if I should be purchasing a new hard drive for my laptop or not. Here’s the smart info taken from crystaldisk info and the OS I’m running is windows 10 home.

Do the values for the smart data mean it’s failing?

CrystalDiskInfo 8.8.7 (C) 2008-2020 hiyohiyo
??Crystal Dew World: https://crystalmark.info/

OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 18363] (x64)
Date : 2020/10/13 10:31:47

– Controller Map –
+ Intel(R) ICH8M Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 2850 [ATA]
– ATA Channel 0 (0)
+ Standard SATA AHCI Controller [ATA]
– WDC WD2500BEVT-08A23T1
ATA Channel 0 (0) [ATA]Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller [SCSI]- Disk List –
(01) WDC WD2500BEVT-08A23T1 : 250.0 GB [0/1/0, pd1]


(01) WDC WD2500BEVT-08A23T1

?Model : WDC WD2500BEVT-08A23T1
?Firmware : 02.01A02
Serial Number : WD-WXC1A1185261
Disk Size : 250.0 GB (8.4/137.4/250.0/250.0)
Buffer Size : 8192 KB
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 488397168
Rotation Rate : 5400 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ATA8-ACS
Minor Version : –
Transfer Mode : SATA/150 | SATA/300
Power On Hours : 9804 hours
Power On Count : 2012 count
Temperature : 36 C (96 F)
Health Status : Good
?Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, NCQ
APM Level : 0060h [ON]
AAM Level : 80FEh [OFF]
Drive Letter : C:

– S.M.A.R.T. –
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 200 200 _51 000000000000 Read Error Rate
03 136 133 _21 00000000086E Spin-Up Time
04 __1 __1 __0 0000000280F5 Start/Stop Count
05 200 200 140 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 100 253 _51 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
09 _87 _87 __0 00000000264C Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 __0 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 100 100 __0 000000000000 Recalibration Retries
0C _98 _98 __0 0000000007DC Power Cycle Count
C0 200 200 __0 000000000058 Power-off Retract Count
C1 __1 __1 __0 00000023A206 Load/Unload Cycle Count
C2 107 100 __0 000000000024 Temperature
C4 200 200 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 200 200 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 253 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 200 __0 000000000000 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 253 __0 000000000000 Write Error Rate
F0 _90 _90 __0 000000001E0E Head Flying Hours

Thank you in advance for any help in this matter.

Answer:I don’t see anything that would indicate to me that drive is going bad.
It looks normal to me.