My 7 year old hard drive.

[slugdude]

According to S.M.A.R.T., my 7 year old hard drive has 65536 uncorrectable errors - but no reallocated sectors - or for that matter, anything ELSE which suggests a hard drive near it's end. I could start backing up onto my SSD, but that would put unnecessary strain on the significantly more expensive drive, or I could back up onto an external drive - but all the ones I have are older and crappier than the HDD in question. What should I do?

Edit: The HDD in question is a Samsung HD250HJ, does anyone have any life expectancy statistics on this drive?

[Phase]

Put it on the SSD

[Magazorb]

i got a similar drive my self, i think HD251HJ, (there's also a HD252HJ to what i'm ware off) from my knowledge they last pretty well, mines still going strong (4years old)

At that point it may be best to do a backup every now and then onto a external drive, then that way even if the drive goes you won't lose to much data and you won't take up room on the SSD, it may not be the best thing to do, but it's what i'd do if i had to protect the data

[tokumei]

Depending on how big of a number was allocated for disk errors, you may have more than 65536... If I'm correct, that's 1 + the limit for unsigned short integers.

[Magic :^)]

bacck it up back it up~

I had a laptop hdd turn into a chainsaw for me the other day, no kidding

scared the crap out of me. first it sounded like an idling car engine, and after i shook it a bit it caught on something and started to screech like a banshee

RIP 2004 1.33GHz PowerBook G4: OSX 10.5 Leopard + Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot ;-;7

[Nickster258]

School ran on two 80 gig drives, both were 9 years old... Then I got the SSD.

[Chibill]

Dang nick that's not that old.I got comps with 10 year old drives that still run okay-ish (only as well as a Pentium with 1 GB of ram can...)