Hello, so at our house i am the tech savvy guy who builds the computers for everyone and the one who maintains them. This means that I sometimes upgrade or replace something when it is (almost) broken, now my dad's pc, which contains, alot of pictures and films, of the family, was upgraded recently, now the thing is, the pc itself is pretty fast, but the hard drive is the thing slowing it down. It was pretty new (hardly used but 3 years old), but it constantly makes that irritating noise not clickinjg but rather like a krrrrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrrrrrrr more like a geiger counter. So i got suspicous, and opened crystal disk, and it said "warning" these are the three things it said that are wrong; "reallocated sectors: now:100, max:100, threshold: 36, pending sector count: now 100, max: 100, threshold: 0, uncorrectable sector count: now: 100, max: 100, threshold: 0, and hdd tune marks the spin retry count in yellow it says: now: 100, max:100, thershold: 97. But hdd tune does mark the drive as ok. Is this normal or should I do something, the reason that I am trying to be carefull is because it contains important data, that is backed up, but still. And now, lets say that there is something wrong what do you think i should buy, like a 500 gb SSD, or maybe a hybrid drive, or just a regular HDD, and which model?
Many thanks in advance,
Vincent

Chowhound
Comic Vine
GameFAQs
GameSpot
Giant Bomb
TechRepublic