Hi. I found your site looking for help about some doubts with my hard disks. Hope anyone can guide me a little:

I recently purchased a SamsungHD502HJ drive, 500gb of capacity. I have installed a free program called "Active Hard Disk Monitor". I installed it mainly to keep myself informed about the temperature. What caught my attention was that the program has a "Healt Status" percentage bar, and that for my old WDC, that reports 6 month of work, it report a health status of 90%, but for the new harddisk, with only 7day of work, it report a 84% of "health". Anyway it says is ok, but, maybe im missing something, isnt supposed that a new hard disk will display "100%" of health in normal conditions?


Thanks in advance!

Can you upload the SMART attribute values?

Hi, thanks your help! Im uploading a capture of the SMART section of the mentioned software. Hope it helps:

Hi! Thanks your help. Here is an screenshot of the SMART information on the Samsung, hope it helps:

http://stashbox.org/789968/Smart-Attrib ... g500gb.jpg

I have posted the values, but the forum dont allow me to post images or links, until moderator approval. I guess i must wait a little

The posts have been aproved, you can look the SMART values above.

Thanks again

The fact that the attributes with normalised values of 252 are given scores of 99% rather than 100% indicates that the author of Active Hard Disk Monitor doesn't understand how to interpret them.

Similarly, the Spinup Time attribute may in fact be normal. It is on the basis of this attribute that the author rates the drive so poorly. See the following threads for comparisons.

http://www.benchmark.pl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7200
http://forum.programosy.pl/skan-dysku-vt113905.html
http://forum.hotfix.pl/viewtopic.php?f= ... &start=660

Thanks! So, i guess things are ok.

I have another question, but i will open it in a different thread.