WD5000AAKS S.M.A.R.T Test "Current Pending Sector Count"

[profesor keller]

Hi folks,

I've been experienced some slowness in my (secondary) WD Blue Caviar HD, so I did run a HDDScan S.M.A.R.T Test, and this is the report:



As far a I can read it, there's a warning regarding "HDA temperature and "Current Pending Sector Count". I can understand and solve the temperature issue, but I'm unable to understand the "Current Pending Sector Count" one.

Is it critical? Can it be solved?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Russwinters]

Hello and welcome.


49C is a little high for operating temperature. Not quite in the "Danger zone" but I would recommend finding means to cool it down alittle, bring it into the lower 40s/high 30s


Pending sector count means that the drive found 9 bad sectors, and is in the process of moving them into the G-list, at which point you will see the "Reallocated sectors count" have 9, and the pending sector count should go back down to 0.