ST3500630AS with F/W 3.AAK

Reallocated Sector Count is at 0000000000-33F3, which when converted to dec gives a value of 13 299. From what I read, this is an absurdly large amount of bad sectors, and it should be immediately visible with a surface scan. However, I did a long scan and zero fill with SeaTools and both completed OK. Drive has not been overtemp, POH is near 13000 hrs. Should I be worried? If not, is there a way to reset the SMART data for this value?

I've attached the HDDScan report.

I would backup and replace the drive. Attribute 5 has dropped well below its threshold.

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Just a few ST3500630AS from my records:

7/4/2008 - bad sectors
12/16/2008 - seized motor
1/19/2009 - seized motor
6/8/2009 - seized motor
7/20/2009 - motor seperated from housing, massive damage
10/2/2009 - seized motor
10/13/2009 - bad pcb
8/4/2010 - bad sectors
12/24/2010 - massive head crash to all platters
2/2/2011 - seized motor, detached heads

These drives are crap!!!!

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Problem is, while it's still under warranty, Seagate won't take it unless SeaTools essentially says it's bad (failed long test etc). I'd rather not just consider it dead when I could be getting a replacement drive from Seagate for next-to-nothing, anything I can do about this?

SeaTools should fail with a "SMART fail" error.

The test code will be xxxxxx4x, where the Xs are a unique hexadecimal number related in some way to the drive's serial number.

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