[SOLVED] HDD uncorrectable sector count reset itself to 0

Lewinator56

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Jan 8, 2017
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Soooooo, this is very odd, my system just froze and I had to manually reset it, upon booting up I checked my HDD in case some more sectors had become corrupted.
(Before everyone says it's a bad drive, it's not as far as I can tell)
The drive has had 1584 uncorrectable sectors for ages, a year or so, I've not bothered to replace it because it's not the primary drive, it just stores all the stuff I can't fit on my SSD.
Anyway, after this crash, I checked it again, and magically it now has 0 uncorrectable sectors, I can't understand how this can happen, a if a sector is marked as uncorrectable, how can it be corrected.

My only assumption is that the count overflowed the SMART counter?
 
Solution
Whether that Uncorrectable number is 0, or EleventyBillion...treat all storage devices as if they might die in the next 0.25 sec.

Plan accordingly.