HD smart utility status: Failing

Hello,

Recently my macbook has been running slow so I did a SMART Utility scan and it came up as FAILING.

Specifically, highlighted in red are Reallocated Sector Count (Pre-fail) and Reallocated Event Count (old age).

I suppose this is bad news, but how bad?

Any advice?

Many thanks

It is critical as SMARTReporter never fails. Back up to your external HD using a cloning utility and get a new HDD asap.

"Reallocated Sector Count (Pre-fail)" seems to be a normal thing with all SSDs. SSDs have blocks failing all the time, this is the nature of SSDs. That's why the Smart Utility is confused. I recommend using Smart Reporter and Raid Monitor instead since it doesn't give the "reallocated sector count" warnings which are obviously often just false positives in SSDs.. You can read this thread for more info: Vertex 2 60gb Reallocated Sectors Count Warning? - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net