Hi guys, I'm having a bit of a dilemma deciding what to do with my External Western Digital 1.5 TB Hard Drive. I've had it over a year and suddenly with iTunes it randomly freezes while I'm listing to music. I have no idea why but only with iTunes. Anyway I decided to run an overnight HD Tune error scan on it and it came up with 7 bad sectors on it. The (C5) Current Pending Sector section under the health tab also lists the 7 bad sectors. Each sector has 572MB on it so it adds up to be a large chunk of data. It holds my music collection of several years, so I don't want to take a risk with it. I read around and it seems to be a mixed bag of opinions. Some say replace immediately and others say they've had bad sectors for years and it still works fine. For safety I backed up the data on another old Seagate external drive and that one has bad sectors too!! Is this really something to worry about or are these readings more hot smoke than anything else to get people scared into buying new drives? I lost my box but still have my receipt so I'm not sure what to do. How many sectors can go bad until the whole drive stops working? Thanks for the insight everyone.