Hard disk sentinel reallocated data sectors

I really dread the time commitment to do this, as I do occassional snapshots of user content (admin & non-admin accounts) by selectively using find, tar, and zipping to disc. There is noД¬lear consensus on whether this is bad (e.g., see ), so I intend to keep an eye on it and migrate off the HD in the long term. The remaining two attributes are #5 (Reallocated_Sector_Ct=269) and #196 (Reallocated_Event_Count=20). The middle marked attribute (#191, G-Sense_Error_Rate) is probably not an indicator of HD health, as the errors are due to physical jarring. I'm not entirely sure whether 3 of these attributes are abnormal, and these are marked with triple asterisks. I've attached selected columns from the smartctl, with the current output (as opposed to 2 years ago) being a hybrid of using smartctl switches -x and -a. Was selected as the healthy reference value for most of the attributes. Higher normalized values are better, and it looks like 100 To interpret the results, I relied on google, and primarily the Wikipedia page. I ran cygwin's smartmontools and compared it to results from 2 years ago. Before I identified the failed converter, I thought that my HD was dying. Recently, I plugged in a faulty SD/USB converter, which caused all sorts of boot failures.

I have an approximately 2-year Toshiba MK6476GSXN HD on my laptop (my only computer).

Hard disk sentinel reallocated data sectors