Comments on: Hard Disk Sentinel http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/09/28/hard-disk-sentinel/ Leslie P. Polzer on code, music, literature, design and free software business. Fri, 09 Dec 2011 14:52:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dunkelstern http://blog.viridian-project.de/2008/09/28/hard-disk-sentinel/comment-page-1/#comment-8089 dunkelstern Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:03:08 +0000 http://blog.viridian-project.de/?p=109#comment-8089 It seems that you have a Seagate disk, so beware, seagate disks return "errorneous data" (well they interpreted the S.M.A.R.T. specification differently) when it comes to disk health. Some tools like "SpeedFan" (Windows) have a built in workaround for seagate disks to display correct data. I don't know if the tool displays correct data here. My laptop disk was down to 3% health before speedfan integrated the workaround. After the workaround the health increased to 86%. It seems that you have a Seagate disk, so beware, seagate disks return “errorneous data” (well they interpreted the S.M.A.R.T. specification differently) when it comes to disk health. Some tools like “SpeedFan” (Windows) have a built in workaround for seagate disks to display correct data. I don’t know if the tool displays correct data here.

My laptop disk was down to 3% health before speedfan integrated the workaround. After the workaround the health increased to 86%.

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