asingh said:Forget that. Do an error scan.
vivacious_tg said:Pending sector count means that the drive found 2 bad sectors, and it will move them to G-list and then you might see "Reallocated sectors count" as 2, and the pending sector count should become 0
vivek.krishnan said:IMO, leave it. Although they will RMA your drive, with the shortage of drives, chances of getting a refurb are quite high. Plus, any other issues?
zapout said:If it's still under pending sector, wait for some time, i also got this error last month on my WD blue, HDD fixed the pending sectors in around one week., install HD sentinal and turn on notification for any changes, (it'll alert u if theres any change in the pending sector..)
If SMART finds a problemmatic area (one or more sectors where the data is hard is hard to read or write), it tries to read the data and copy it (reallocate) to the spare area. The original location is then (internally) marked as bad and all further read/write operations pointing to the original location is then redirected to the spare area.
When the operation is completed, the original (bad) area is not accessible by software any more. Even re-install or complete re-format will not show problems because the original bad area is not used any more. That's why software (for example Windows' Scandisk) will not find problemmatic sectors. Only the hardware security erase function will access this area (clearing these sectors also).
asingh said:I had two of those red things on my 2TB Green WD. Got it successfully RMA'ed (out and back to my house); 6 days. Back it up, and get rid of it.
nehaladsul said:^^ My Drive carries a 5 year warranty valid till April, 2015. So, if I get it RMAed, will the new drive carry a 5 year warranty or just 3 years?
Gannu said:2 years effective Jan 2 2012.