Would you still use this drive? Bad sector, testing program says it's fixed

[Blazestorm]

So I got a 1TB 7200.11 drive... at one point it was booting and giving disk errors / click of death.

I unplugged it and brought it upstairs for more testing, it shows up just fine and is running fine. I'm sorta paranoid so I make a full ghost/backup. I go back down to the server and install it, boots up and looks like it'll work but then gives a registry error, I ran chkdsk and it got worse. Then I try a re-install the server OS with the disk. That failed, then I tried a new install and that failed. I go wtf? bring it back up stairs and test and get a bad sector pretty early on with HD Tune.

Then I run WD Diagnostics full test, it finds bad sectors but says it can repair them, so I click that and says it was successful, I ran another full test (3.5 hours later) I get a result saying it passed... Sorta in disbeliefe I run HD Tune and see the bad sector is gone from there too.. Now I let it keep going so I could see if there's anything towards the end.

But based on all that, would you keep using the drive, or RMA it?

 

[thebeephaha]

If more pop up soon, I'd worry. But if it is just one and others don't show up right away eh I'd still be using it.

 

[Kmical]

I agree with thebeephaha. All drives have extra capacity reserved for the remapping of physical bad sectors. One sector - especially if the WD utility repaired (remapped) the problem spot - wouldn't bother me. If you get some after this, then it's time for an RMA.

With that being said - I wouldn't store the only copy of the unpublished novel you've been working on for the past 10 years on that drive

 

[Blazestorm]

It's just holding the OS for my WHS... so nothing important is stored... folders are duplicated etc.

But I think I will plug-in that external drive I have laying around, and have WHS backup it's own OS to that.

Thanks, I guess my backup didn't copy right, most of the files are there but windows won't boot, so I'll just reinstall it.