WD30EFRX(3TB) SMART error - reason to exchange it?

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Hello, I get the “S.M.A.R.T C5, Current Pending Sector Count = 200” error (see pic). Is this a reason to exchange both of my 3TB hard discs (WD30EFRX). Thanks, -t

Meanwhile I did a scan with HDDSCAN. After only 12% of the scan, it already found 595000 bad sectors. After how many bad sectors should we trash it?

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Hi @t3za
Have you opened a Support Case? If not opened, for more information, please contact the WD Technical Support team for the best assistance and troubleshooting:

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Hi Riyan, thx. The disk is 4 years old. I guess WD isnt helping here…but would you know, how to judge the result? How many bad sectors would you allow before replacing it in a RAID1.

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I don’t see any pic.

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smart_data1
smart_data1613×552 22.3 KB

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hdd
hdd717×448 45.2 KB

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I don’t understand why there are no reallocated sectors and only 3 pending sectors in the SMART attributes if there are 600,000 bad blocks. :-??

I’m wondering if HDDScan is flagging “weak” sectors as bad?

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It is the same with another 3TB harddrive from the same RAID1-NAS. I replaced both now. But is there another tool to repair them or mark the badsectors for future usage…

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If your drive has that many bad blocks, then it should be taken out of service.

You could try a surface scan with Victoria for Windows. Victoria will allow you to remap any bad sectors.

https://hdd.by/victoria/

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thx, will check it out