Re: Confirmed premature hard disk failure

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:25:34PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU> writes:
> 
> > Why did you wait until you had many pending/reallocated sectors before 
> > RMAing it instead of RMAing it as soon as you had 1 bad sector?
> 
> Which vendors accept RMA's for a reallocated sector for a consumer
> drive?

I've had Dell and Seagate do it.  Seagate will replace a drive just by 
filling out a web form--no justification needed at all.