Time to RMA?

[lord filbuster]

I've just had an alert from intel RST stating that my a Toshiba 7K1000.D is 'at risk'. I opened up crystal disk info, and the drive has a pretty large number of reallocated sectors (1900).

I've backed up the data on the drive, but is this actually a valid reason to RMA?

 

[demon8991]

I've just had an alert from intel RST stating that my a Toshiba 7K1000.D is 'at risk'. I opened up crystal disk info, and the drive has a pretty large number of reallocated sectors (1900).

I've backed up the data on the drive, but is this actually a valid reason to RMA?

Just had two drives fail on me with very similar warnings in the last couple of weeks.

You have done the right thing in backing the drive up but it will most likely fail soon.

Try running a chkdsk by opening up CMD as administrator and running "chkdsk c: /f /r" and when prompted for restart select yes (i am assuming the drive is C:, if not then D:, F: etc)

 

[Steampunk]

A lot of reallocated sectors in a small time period is usually a sign that the drive is dying. It's even possible to run out of spare sectors to reallocate to if things are bad enough. There's been some sort of critical failure on part of the disk surface, and this tends to get worse.

Easiest thing is to run whatever testing app the drive manufacturer supplies, and if it fails, that's enough for an RMA.