I just got a new T530 which came with a Seagate 320 GB disk when checking out the system, I've noticed that the SMART reallocated sector count is slowly rising. Currently there are no offline uncorrectable or pending sectors but I haven't even started installing any software or doing any real writes to the disk. The reallocated count is increasing from primarily read activities.
Opinions wanted as to whether this might be an early indication of a drive problems or whether this is within tolerance for these seagate drives? From what I've seen on other drivers, I would generally expect this count to stay zero or very low until the drive starts developing some bad areas. How bad does a drive have to be before getting it replaced under warranty? Does anyone routinely do extended burn-in testing on their factory supplied TP drives? Thanks, --Rob _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
