
If you'd like detailed information about the diagnostics, we suggest you check the documentation of the software manufacturer. " The information that we had provided was based on the screenshots you had shared. " That part about read error rate 84, is that the highest good value, not value of 100? So my smart is the healthiest that new HDD can be?" The current value of temperature must be lesser and the maximum temperature level that the drive has recorded is the worst value." This applies for all other attributes except temperature. The higher the current value is, better the health status will be. Hence, it means that the drive is in good health. This value is not near the Threshold value 6. The lowest value that the attribute "Read Error Rate" has reached is 65. Worst value is 65: The values for both Current and the Worst keeps changing. For any attribute, if the current value is less or equal to the Threshold, then it is a drive that is failing or has failed.


Threshold is the lowest value that is used to determine a failure. Threshold is 6: If the Read Error Rate is near to 6 or less than 6, it indicates that the drive has failed. On reviewing the screenshots we see that the Raw Read Error Rate is currently 84 " Please be advised Read Error Rate Stores data related to the rate of hardware read errors that occurred when reading data from a disk surface/platter.

I asked Seagate support, they told me this:
