Confirmed premature hard disk failure

[Chuck Anderson]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:12:04AM -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:25:34PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> > Chuck Anderson <cra at 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.

Oh, and IBM too.  Of course, these were all under warranty.