Is bad sectors count issue when i plan not to write more data on HDD?

Hello,

i want to ask when i buy HDD with 13 pending sectors and 13 offline uncorrectable

how much probably it is that this number will grow behind safe limit (i assume 200?)

I plan only to one time copy my movies on that drive and then use it for playing these movies. So i do not plan to do heavy writing on HDD beside that initial filling HDD with movie data.

the SMART for the HDD: http://i.snag.gy/fMSzG.jpg

Thank you

Since its a western digital drive, run their diagnostic on it and run the full extended scan. Usually bad sectors will increase over time and your drive will become unusable at some point. Look at the drive and there should be a date code listed on the sticker.

Generally bad sectors means the drive is on its way out and won't last much longer regardless of what you do with it.

Depending on the age of the drive and other various Western Digital rules you would have to check out to apply to your situation, you 'may' be able to RMA the drive for a new one.

With that said, I've had two WD's (out of a total of sic, a couple of them are seagates) in my desktop here that have had a few bad sectors on them for several years now and they're still amazingly going strong with no new bad sectors.

I use "Crystal Disk Info" to view the hard drive health on my machine.

Doing what johnb35 suggested should help a lot with marking bad sectors, and finding new ones, to keep data from being written to them and such.