Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB

mattkime wrote:
I really don't see how its worth returning a drive with one reallocated sector. You could play that game for a while before getting a drive that stays at zero. Its just not an indication likely drive failure so stick with it.

Is that a change because of the way modern drives work? On all the other hard drives I have owned, even a single reallocated sector was indication that it was going to soon completely fail. But, I understand the logic that there could be a single reallocated sector or even a few that doesn't indicate drive failure. Particularly as the size of the magnetic domains decreases (density increases), the possibility of a microscopic defect in the platter increases....

Hmm... Except there is already a ton of error correction before the level of reallocated sectors.

eh, I don't really know....