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Reallocated Sector Count - Best Practices
I've got a set of 6 Seagate ST3500514NS 500GB - each drive seems to pick up an additional reallocated sector every week or two. Some of them are up to around ~30 reallocated sectors at this point. ...
jlehtinen wrote: Thanks for the replies.
I was a little concerned about this, so I already have some replacement drives on hand. I've been checking daily on drive health to try to watch for a failure or any acceleration in the sector growth.
I guess there isn't much else I can do except wait until reallocated sectors reaches 50 on each of the drives, and I can RMA them one by one.
Actually, you could replace those (one by one ofc) right now, then run Seatools on them and send to RMA right away.
Warranty already covers 1 Bad sector, you dont have to wait to get 50 of them
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