Funny thing. This article prompted me to check the health of my two Samsung SSD's (a 250GB 850 EVO SATA III, and a 970 EVO Plus 1TB NVMe), which were fine.
But Samsung's Magician also listed my Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 2TB spinny disk. It found a SMART error. I ran a performance test and looked at SMART again, and the "Hardware ECC Recovered" value went from 80 to 81, with a threshold of 64. My other software labels this as "good". Nevertheless, this drive is now being replaced by a 4TB WD Blue. Thanks, article. Saved me some future troubles!
Yes, the non-raw values are always reported with higher meaning better. The raw values are the raw measurements/counts and they each mean different things.
You did the right thing by replacing the Seagate ST2000DM008. I do data recovery professionally and that's not one of my favorite drives! Lots of issues IMHO.
Yep, I was wrong on this. I should have used my google-fu instead of jumping to a conclusion. I guess I just really wanted an excuse to upgrade to a 4TB :)
But Samsung's Magician also listed my Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 2TB spinny disk. It found a SMART error. I ran a performance test and looked at SMART again, and the "Hardware ECC Recovered" value went from 80 to 81, with a threshold of 64. My other software labels this as "good". Nevertheless, this drive is now being replaced by a 4TB WD Blue. Thanks, article. Saved me some future troubles!