Q:

Possible HDD failure soon? 

4 days ago, I decided to download HD Tune just to see how my hard drive was doing.  When I checked the program today I saw this...  

When I first checked I had ~8300 Retry Counts and in 4 days it has increased by more than 1,000.  This hard drive is in a 2010 Samsung R530 Laptop. 
Should I be worried?  I have already got backups of my data. 

A:

I wouldn't leave my only copy of irreplaceable data on the drive, but I wouldn't worry until I started to see more reallocated sectors & started getting read errors.  Then drives can start "clicking" or pausing like they're "frozen" for a few seconds, those are big red flags that a drive's about to fail. 
You can also check the drive's "smart" tests, if your programs can't do that then the HD manufacturer should have a program that can. 
(Sometimes they can unexpectedly fail out of the blue too, so backups of important data are always a good idea)

