I read online, and got some other forum responses, that this is bad and drive is failing. The other day I checked CrystalDiskInfo again and got a yellow Caution sign with an Uncorrectable Sector Count of 2. No slow downs during accessing files, watching videos or video editing. I read online somewhere that sometimes the drive spins slower if it doesn't need full speed so I ignored this. When I first ran CrystalDiskInfo, the health was good but it showed Rotate Rate 5400 RPM. The document drive is a Western Digital Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5". 367 sectors is already a high number, suggest your change the HDD immediately.Īny cheap SSD will do but better to find SSD with DRAM to avoid lagging issue.I built a new computer recently. However, if your pending sector count increases you should immediately replace the drive to prevent data loss. After continuing to use the drive, rebooting the system, etc the count stays the exact same, your drive may be okay. The main way to determine whether or not your drive is likely to fail is how quickly this count increases. Pending sectors are a warning sign that your drive may experience some problems or failure. The pending sector count can go up/down depending on whether or not the drive can later successfully read data from the sector, or if the sector is bad it will become Reallocated Sectors Count and the pending count will decrease but the reallocated count will go up. Your Current Pending Sector Count is a warning about unstable sectors on your drive that are waiting to be remapped (reallocated) to spare space on the drive.īasically, your hard drive had trouble reading a sector of the drive and it is considering remapping the sector to one of the spare sectors. Yeah, your Current Pending Sector Count is the issue.