Reallocation event count

[HammerSandwich]

One of my HDs has a reallocation event count of 5 (raw). All other error counts are 0, including reallocated & pending sectors.

I just ran a full, 1-pass wipe, and no counts changed.

What does this tell me?

 

[drescherjm]

Did you full format the drive when you first received it? At work I have seen a few instances of pending sectors on never written sectors on new drives that go away after writing but don't increase the reallocated sectors from 0.

 

[HammerSandwich]

Honestly can't remember. I'm just wiping a bunch of old drives & figuring out which can be reused in unimportant roles.