Reallocated Sector Count is a problem?

I bought my AOA150(160HDD,1GB RAM) 3 months ago and recently in the everest report i found some problems in the SMART function of the HDD in the "Reallocated Sector Count" item, there my HDD have 13 Reallocated sectors and 12 Reallocation Events.Is this a critical problem or is a normal function of the HDD? , because i still have the warranty of my AOA.

 

Actually, if you have too many of "reallocated sector" you will need to replace the drive.
My aspire one as none reallocation sectors, but however, it did have reallocation events.

My Desktop hard drive has around 61 reallocated sectors. Anymore than 200, I'd say it's time to replace the drive.
It has greatly reduced the overall performance of my hard drive, since the sector is mapped to elsewhere. (Usually unmapped sectors).

You will NOT need to replace your AAO, I think your aao be fine. :lol:

 

I found this info about my problem:

Reallocated Sector count:
"Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. This is why, on modern hard disks, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface – all bad blocks are hidden in reallocated sectors. However, as the number of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease. The raw value normally represents a count of the number of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate."

In other words is a critical problem and i need to replace my HDD before the warranty expires, probably the store tell me that this is normal in the HDD's, like the dead pixels in the LCD's, but i'll fight for a HDD in perfect conditions :twisted: .

I'll tell you later the answer of the store.

 

lol, the hdd isn't that bad, trust me, most hard disks do have a remapped sector.
It's not critical, check your "SMART" value. Critical is something like, a value of 50. which has like 200 remapped sectors.
You can get it replaced, but I don't think the store is gonna accept such a small problem.

 

Well the situation is this: if you buy a new HDD the number of reallocated sectors MUST be "0" in other words the surface was in a perfect state, but if buy the HDD and the reallocated sector count increases without any reason, the HDD is new but "defective" and the lifetime of the HDD will be 3 months - 1 years than the 4-5 years of a HDD in perfect conditions.

If you want more info read this:

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

 

Finally, today arrives my AOA150 with a new HDD in perfect conditions, the store change the hdd withoutany problems and said that this is a common problem.

 

indeed it is a common problem. I'm just happy that you're happy now XD