Second drive gone bad within a few weeks, but it is a 2.5" HDD this time. I run a couple of smartctl tests and sector 33428384 was reported to have a read failure; e.g.:
...
# 5 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1351
33428384
# 6 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1350
33428384
# 7 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1350
33428384
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1350 - # 9 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 1350 -

Then I took the drive out of the PC and run some tests again in a USB docking station. First, 'hdparm --read-sector 33428384' returned success. Then a short offline test returned "Completed without error", to be followed by a
long test with the same result. Interestingly, smartctl now shows:

"3 of 3 failed self-tests are outdated by newer successful extended offline self-test # 1"

However, the smarctl Thresholds table is warning "FAILING_NOW":

184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 099 099 099 Old_age Always FAILING_NOW 1

I'm running a reading test on it now to see if it reports any errors. Given the results so far, is it worth keeping it around? Perhaps for duplicate non- mission critical data?
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