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On 04/20/2014 02:50 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
> Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>
>>> Yeah, a few reallocated sectors are no big deal on a drive that old.
>
>> However having Current_Pending_Sector or Offline_Uncorrectable = 1 is
>> a bit more annoying.
>
> Sure, but only a little.
>> It means that the data inside a sector is currently unreadable and the
>> embedded disk controller was unable to reallocate the failing sector.
>
> Only with the offline uncorrectable sector.
>> In short, it means : data has been lost.
>
> That assumes that the data in it is of any value.
>> Not too good for a backup drive.
>
> Its just a complete yawn for me, I never have just one backup and hardly
> ever actually need to use a backup
> anyway, and its very unlikely that I will need the data
> in that particular sector even if I do use the backup and since its not
> the only backup, its no more than
> a very minor nuisance.

Many decent size systems suffer from silent data loss, anyway, and 
hardly anybody seems to notice.