The application just reads whatever the drive says or what it does (during the test). The nature of wonderful computers!
<grin> That's true.
I have seen disks that had SMART errors logged but functioned for many hours (months) later. I would keep it under watch.
Ok, that sounds good to me. If it were my drive, I'd continue to use it. Since it's a customer's drive, I'm not sure how strongly I should recommend they replace it. In the other cases where something like this has happened I've told them - "The drive shows errors that happened X hours ago but it passes the tests I've run on it now. That means that it probably isn't in immediate danger of failing, but you should back up your data regularly." (It's sort of ridiculous to have to tell people to do this, but you know how it is.)
In this case, I don't have the advantage of the error having happened in the past. Grrr.
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