> My Maxtor 6L250R0, only a couple years old now is showing a yellow
> highlighted bar for the Reallocated Sector count in HD Tune. The
> values
> are below:
> Should I be concerned?
It is a single one. No need to worry, this happens even on
perfeclty fine modern disks from time to time.
Arno
> ID Current Worst ThresholdData
> Status
> (05) Reallocated Sector Count 253 253 63 1
> Ok
> (03) Spin Up Time 180 178 63 16945
> Ok
> (04) Start/Stop Count 253 253 0 1206
> Ok
> (06) Read Channel Margin 253 253 100 0
> Ok
> (07) Seek Error Rate 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (08) Seek Time Performance 246 238 187 63919
> Ok
> (09) Power On Hours Count 241 241 0 54939
> Ok
> (0A) Spin Retry Count 253 252 157 0
> Ok
> (0B) Calibration Retry Count 253 252 223 0
> Ok
> (0C) Power Cycle Count 250 250 0 1212
> Ok
> (C0) Power Off Retract Count 253 253 0 0
> Ok
> (C1) Load Cycle Count 253 253 0 0
> Ok
> (C2) Temperature 31 253 0 31
> Ok
> (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 253 252 0 2254
> Ok
> (C4) Reallocated Event Count 253 253 0 0
> Ok
> (C5) Current Pending Sector 253 253 0 0
> Ok
> (C6) Offline Uncorrectable 253 253 0 0
> Ok
> (C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 1 1 0 50588
> Ok
> (C8) Write Error Rate 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (C9) TA Counter Detected 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (CA) TA Counter Increased 253 252 0 1
> Ok
> (CB) Run Out Cancel 253 252 180 0
> Ok
> (CC) Soft ECC Correction 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (CD) Thermal Asperity Rate 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (CF) Spin High Current 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (D0) Spin Buzz 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (D1) Offline Seek Performance 234 234 0 230
> Ok
> (D2) (unknown attribute) 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (D3) (unknown attribute) 253 252 0 0
> Ok
> (D4) (unknown attribute) 253 249 0 0
> Ok