Ryan Beall
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- Mar 8, 2014
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I recently had a drive start popping bad sectors and the count got all the way to 80. A day later I had a second drive start popping sectors so I rushed out and replaced the drive with 80 bad sectors just in case. Now the second drive that started failing has 40 bad sectors and has stayed constant at 40 bad sectors for a month now. I've tried to offline the drives and write zeros on the sectors but can't seem to get the pending message to go away. Might not have the process down correctly. Either way, it seemed like all of the forum post tutorials on similar things all are correcting 1 pending sector. Is 40-80 bad sectors a no brainer to replace the drive and RMA it? Cant really find the number or spare sectors that are reasonable to be able to pull out of pending?