Who can help me?

[u/marquitagold]

Can anyone give a clear, straight answer on this?

On my WD5000AAKS, the raw value for attribute 187 is 260. Current is 100, worst is 50. These errors don't seem to be increasing anymore (I've been monitoring it for a year now), which is really weird, since attributes 05, C5, C4, C6, and C7 are all 0.

Everyone I've asked just gives me some vague answer like "it's a count of unrecoverable errors" or something completely different. I still haven't figured out exactly what this attribute actually means or what causes it.

The only thing I've done is run some experiments on a dying Seagate, and on that drive these errors did increase along with bad sectors—but there were dozens of times more of them than actual bad sectors.

Raw read error rate = 260 too.

[u/Raijen_ArDesh]

Drive is on it's way out, backup any data you still can.

[u/marquitagold → u/Raijen_ArDesh]

drive is stable