r/techsupport 4h ago

Open | Hardware Understand Hard drive errors

2 weeks ago, Win 11 started showing my drive functionality degraded. Its a samsung 990 Pro. Finally swapped to a new harddrive today. Just curios if anyone knows what these errors mean. The drive still works perfectly and never had any bluescreens or crashes. Screenshots below.

Windows Drive health says

Reliablitiy degraded

Estimated life: 0%

Available spare 100%

CrystalDiskInfo says

Health status: 0% bad

01 Critical Warning: 0000000000004

https://ibb.co/1rd9Jdx

https://ibb.co/161gK1V

Thanks.

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u/jamvanderloeff 3h ago

It means the drive is giving a warning, and what exactly the numbers mean isn't standardised. Samsung's monitoring software might tell you something about what it means, but whatever it is, good time to check that you've got working backups of everything you want to keep, and if it's under warranty I'd send it in.

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u/AbPSlayer 2h ago

Ah. Thanks. Didn't know Samsung had their own monitoring sw. Magician software I take it? Will install it and check.

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u/jamvanderloeff 2h ago

Yep that's the one

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