I need help Calibration Retry Count warning

What should I do ?

HD Tune Pro: SAMSUNG HM251HI Health

ID Current Worst ThresholdData Status
(01) Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 51 3 ok
(02) Throughput Performance 252 252 0 0 ok
(03) Spin Up Time 89 84 25 3404 ok
(04) Start/Stop Count 98 98 0 2101 ok
(05) Reallocated Sector Count 252 252 10 0 ok
(07) Seek Error Rate 252 252 51 0 ok
(08) Seek Time Performance 252 252 15 0 ok
(09) Power On Hours Count 100 100 0 10956 ok
(0A) Spin Retry Count 252 252 51 0 ok
(0B) Calibration Retry Count 100 100 0 852 warning
(0C) Power Cycle Count 99 99 0 1779 ok
(0D) Soft Read Error Rate 100 100 0 0 ok
(BF) G-sense Error Rate 99 99 0 17782 ok
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count 252 252 0 0 ok
(C1) Load Cycle Count 85 85 0 153955 ok
(C2) Temperature 59 48 0 1048617 ok
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered 100 100 0 0 ok
(C4) Reallocated Event Count 252 252 0 0 ok
(C5) Current Pending Sector 252 252 0 0 ok
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable 252 252 0 0 ok
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 0 ok
(C8) Write Error Rate 100 100 0 336 ok
(F0) Head Flying Hours 100 100 0 10723 ok
(F1) LifeTime Writes from Host 95 94 0 6955174 ok
(F2) LifeTime Reads from Host 94 94 0 8349839 ok
(FE) (unknown attribute) 252 252 0 0 ok

Health Status : warning

 

Back up your data (to two or more separate devices/locations).

Throw away this disk (do not clone it.... yikes!).

Buy an SSD > ~480GB or larger, OP it by 30% and forget HDD's forever.

 

simply do not have the solution

Thank you.......
I wait a serious solution

 

The first two suggestions are serious.

The third is too, if your budget doesn't kill itself laughing at it.

Either way, don't trust that drive anymore for anything important.

 

Agreed. Replace the drive. What do you think the warning means?


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I'm not sure what the calibration entails (whether it's checking against a known pattern or strictly a mechanical check), but a calibration issue generally would indicate imminent problems surfacing.

You're actually one of the fortunate users who are getting a warning prior to their drive breaking. Take advantage of it: backup the data and replace the drive.

 

You can see if Seagate's Seatools can do a more thorough diagnostic analysis (Seagate bought Samsung's HDD business a few years ago) but don't do any thorough testing until you have backup up the drive in case more arduous testing worsens the sickness.

John

 

This x1000, I've killed failing drives running diagnostics. If I didn't have backups of the most important data, I would have been pretty bummed out.

 

Thank you for all

 

Yeah, Samsung made the worst HDD`s for bad blocks ect in my opinion the best for SDD`s go figure, I still cringe at all the people buying the Samsung 2B 2.5" but i suppose it`s made by Seagate now so why keep the Samsung brand, it cannot be old stock at 2TB.

Anyway backup you data and ditch the Samsung.

John.

 

What do you mean? I don't really get you...

 

What don't you understand?

John.

 

Your assumed difference between the Seagate and Samsung 2.5" 2TB drives.

I have both a Samsung M3 portable 2TB and a Seagate slim 2TB. The former has a Seagate ST2000LM005 drive and the latter a Seagate ST2000LM003 drive. Both are made in China and I'm 99.9% sure that the source is what was the Samsung hard drive factory. That the same internal hardware is sold in different boxes with different names is to increase the overall market share because some people will buy one brand but not the other. The other reason that I think they are made in the ex-Samsung factory using Samsung technology is that these are 3 platter 9.5mm drives which Samsung first made some years ago.

John