Thankfully you can take the drive out and return it for a new one
since it's in a mirror. Bad sectors early on = bad data very soon.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Christopher Howard
<christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
> My main desktop PC is a two-disk raid-1 array. The SMART Data disk
> analyser tool in my Gnome desktop just gave me a warning indicating that
> one of the disks is failing. However, when I looked at the details, the
> only thing it shows wrong is that 55 sectors are bad and had to be
> reallocated. However, I just bought the disk about two months ago. Since
> sectors are only 512 bytes large (thus saith the Google), and it is a
> 500GB drive, I'm wondering if this is something I should take seriously,
> or if it is okay to lose a few sectors here and there on a large disk.
> And if this is a sign of immanent disk failure, should I immediately
> take the disk out of the array?
>
> Advice?
>
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