Hard Disk Monitoring

Btw I am curious about the possible reason for the difference between my graph vs the one your previously mentioned post. Could it be because of buffer size. Also is there a way to know if a disk if SMR or CMR since the manufacturer doesn't mentions it on their website? Also can you pls provide more...

I did perform the read test and it was all light green as far as I can recall and thought Read Test might not be able to detect bad sectors as good as the "reinitialize disk" does since I dont have the complete understanding. I must say the last 2 % of the test takes the longest 4-5 hours....

The test has been running for long time now (and rest of the graph was also dark green. I wanst able to take screen shot after the test completed). I have already read about the various colors in docs and just wanted to confirm if this is something I should worry about since there are lot of dark gr...