Is my WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 defective?

Greetings,

I got this drive yesterday and put it ina an external enclosure connected through esata. Today Windows gives me some warnings that hte drive is going to fail and I should make a backup of it. I ran WD’s diagnostic tool and got this:

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Is there something I can do or do I have to RMA?

Thanks in advance.

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too many bad sectors

return the drive where you buyed

can you install hard disk sentinel  and see the health?

just for curiosity :stuck_out_tongue: