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Firmware managing to reallocate sectors sounds like an accomplishment but of course it's a simple remapping operation. With regards to BB attribute, one could argue it's bad translation, Seagate self call BB attribute BB "Reported Uncorrectables". Reported! I have seen examples of the BB attribute reporting zero while SMART logs actually showed > zero values (HDDGuru forums). 4948 reallocations and then giving a hard drive 9 out of 10 health rating is ridiculous.
– Joep van Steen
Commented Mar 12 at 21:35
@JoepvanSteen: Remapping is an accomplishment, because it means that these sectors were readable after some retries. With 4948 unreadable sectors the disk is dead. My 9 for the badness level means untrustworthy but not yet dead. Would you give it a much better "badness note"?
– harrymc
Commented Mar 12 at 21:47
No it does not mean sectors were readable after retries, most reallocations don't happen on read. Scale was 1(very bad) - 10 (flawless), this drive is nowhere near 10.
– Joep van Steen
Commented Mar 12 at 21:59
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– Joep van Steen
Commented Mar 13 at 14:46
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This discussion clearly outlines how much the subject of bad sectors is opinion-based. Furthermore any hints based on a personal use profile do not add value for future readers.
– r2d3
Commented Mar 17 at 0:33

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