![]() ![]() The main way to determine whether or not your drive is likely to fail is how quickly this count increases. Pending sectors are a warning sign that your drive may experience some problems or failure. The pending sector count can go up/down depending on whether or not the drive can later successfully read data from the sector, or if the sector is bad it will become a reallocated sector (ID 05) and the pending count will decrease but the reallocated count will go up. Your Current Pending Sector Count is a warning about unstable sectors on your drive that are waiting to be remapped (reallocated) to spare space on the drive.īasically, your hard drive had trouble reading a sector of the drive and it is considering remapping the sector to one of the spare sectors. CrystalDiskInfo C5 – Current Pending Sector CountĪ number greater than 0 in the C5 – Current Pending Sector Count column will cause CrystalDiskInfo to set off a Caution warning. There are 3 common errors that will set off CrystalDiskInfo to issue a warning about your hard drive’s health, so let’s jump into these and figure out exactly what each one means. ![]() This will give you the actual number of each column instead of gibberish only robots can read by memory.Ĭommon CrystalDiskInfo Data Points That Should Give You ‘Caution’ It can sometime show by default as a hexadecimal value (letters and numbers) and that’s not very helpful unless you can convert Hex to Decimals in your head, if you’re not a robot then you can change this by going to:įunction -> Advanced Features -> Raw Values inside of CrystalDiskInfo and setting it to ’10 DEC’ to get a decimal output for the Raw Values column. The ‘Raw Values’ column is the actual number of errors that your drive is detecting for that S.M.A.R.T attribute. You don’t want to be looking at the ‘Current’ or ‘Worst’ columns, you only want to pay attention to the ‘Raw Values’ column. It’s unlikely that you have 100 reallocated/pending/uncorrectable sectors, you’re probably just looking at the wrong column in CrystalDiskInfo. You’ve just opened up CrystalDiskInfo and it’s showing an amber Caution warning next to one of your hard drives, now what do you do? Is your hard drive about to crash? Do you need to replace your hard drive right away? Are things really that bad/can I keep using the drive?īefore we dig into what each S.M.A.R.T data point means, I need to address a common error I’ve seen online: In my case as the screenshot shows, there should be still 93% left.Īnd you can click on “View Output” button to view all the info as text, copy and paste them into online forums to ask for help! Or, run a “Self-Tests” manually to see if there’s any error.I’ve been where you are. As the screenshot below shows, it shows you:įor those prefer a percentage value of the device life, go “Statistics” tab and check the value of Percentage Used Endurance Indicator. But it will highlight something that is not going well with red text font or background.īy moving mouse cursor over any item in the app window, there will be a tool-tip pop-over that explain with detailed information. Things are not so easy to read for beginners. It will list your SSD drive in the app window.īy double-clicking on the disk icon or go menu “Device -> View Details” will open the information dialog that you need. ![]() After that, search for and launch it from start menu (or Activities overview). For Ubuntu, it’s available to install via Ubuntu Software app:įor those familiar with Linux command can run a single command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install it: sudo apt install gsmartcontrolĢ. User can just search for and install it from system package manager. First, the tool is available in most Linux’s system repositories. For Linux, there’s a tool GSmartControl available for choice.ġ. In Windows 10, I prefer to use CrystalDiskInfo which is super easy to understand for beginners. Not sure what’s the problem, but I guess it’s something to do the data reading issue from SSD drive. Everything works well, but it recently refuses to boot sometimes when pressing on the physical power button. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my old laptop for about 7 years. This simple tutorial shows how to easily check your SSD health in Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint desktop. ![]()
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