I have a 3TB drive that I’ve already bought a replacement for, but I was planning to cover part of the replacement’s cost by selling the 3TB drive. A few days ago this drive started clicking and beeping, which sounded like a power issue and seems to have been resolved since I put it on a different SATA power cable.
An extended self-test since then (using smartctl -t long) passes but also shows that this incident has slightly increased a few pre-fail attributes like SPIN_RETRY_COUNT, still well below the threshold limits. I’m now in an ethical position as to whether it’s a good idea to sell the drive. Can a drive that’s still passing but has a few pre-fail attributes be reliably considered to last for another 5 or even 10 years?
Here’s the output from smartctl -a:
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 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 141 141 054 Pre-fail Offline - 65
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 207 207 024 Pre-fail Always - 370 (Average 183)
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2275
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 124 124 020 Pre-fail Offline - 33
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 10738
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 095 095 060 Pre-fail Always - 65536
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1181
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2271
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 2271
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 157 157 000 Old_age Always - 38 (Min/Max 15/54)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
And here’s CrystalDiskInfo:
