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Originally Posted by silkstone

I disagree. Here is a drive I bought back from the dead:

http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/17...2012_01-18.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/17...2012_01-17.png

Currently using it as a media/backup drive:

http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/28...2012_21-56.png

HDD regenerator and Vivard brought it back from the dead. And even though it throws up tons of smart errors, it works perfectly.

When i open HD Tune:
http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/Untitled.png

http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/21...2013_15-40.png

When i leave it to update:
http://img.techpowerup.org/130221/21...2013_15-36.png

I'm guessing there is just an error with the S.M.A.R.T monitor on the HDD now.

It might not fail to you. But once hard disks starts to fail badly, it usually becomes very unreliable. The most important thing is that once the data reach the bad sectors, the data will be at risk also. So its better to be on the safe side and backup all the data and replace the drive.