I have this Samsung HD321KJ been 4 years, shortly after I built a new system back in 2006, the power supply sata cable was faulty and kept turning on/off the HDD quickly, I opened up the case and switched the sata cable, "damage" was done, 993 reallocated sectors thanks to my Thermaltake power supply. I didn't care to RMA it... I just used it anyways! 4 years later, it still has 993 reallocated sectors and works fine besides the SMART warnings, I am currently using it for a file server! No important files are being stored on it, only running the O.S. (Fedora 13).

Would it be dumb to keep using it? Or... Since the reallocated sectors count never changed it's kinda safe?

Thanks.

The 993 Reallocated Sectors may be just "soft" errors and are remapped to Glist. If you say that there are no important files on it and it has been 4 years that way then you can keep on using it for non critical applications. If talking about important files then you should have a backup plan anyway.

A new one nowadays, though, are very cheap and performance-wise would be much better...

there's no g-list on these samsungs...