HDD Failing?

[schpongo]

Hey i just checked the overall condition of my HDD were i keep my local Time Machine backup on. 

The SMART status says FAILING. The program (DriveDx on mac) says i have:

-14 Reallocates Sector Counts 

-2 Current Pending Sector Counts

 

What Does that mean for my HHD and the life span?

Can i send my HDD in for warranty purposes before it actually breaks? 

I dont want to use it until its dead and have to buy a second HDD enclosure to back up my backup 

 

[Vitalius]

Back up important data now.

It's iffy atm. It could fix itself via the awesome software that HDD's use. It could die suddenly. All depends.

Redundancy. Seriously. Do it now or regret it later. 

[adhisakti]

Reallocated sector count and current pending sector count means that some of the sectors of your hdd has been bad. If it contain your important data, make sure you change to the new harddrive. You can still use that harddrive for non important data for a while until it dies

[schpongo]

I did another test and got this:

 

[schpongo]

I tried backing up my backup to a partition of my friends HDD. 

I tried Disk Utility and Tech Tool Pro 6 and bot times i got the error "Could not restore Input/Output error".

Any suggestions?

[MG2R]

 "Could not restore Input/Output error".

This basically means that the drive tried to access a sector it cannot read anymore (one of those sectors pending realloctaion probably. Whatever was on that sector is probably lost forever.

 

Get a new drive. Now. When you have the new drive, write this one completely full (use dd or somthing similar), this will reallocate the bad sectors. After that you can use the failing drive as a USB drive to hold non-important data and use the new drive as your backup.

[schpongo]

How do i get my data (even if some of the data is curupted ) off my old HDD so i can temp. store it on my friends HDD so when i get the new one i can safely transfer all of my data and backups?

[MG2R]

Usually, you can just copy it off. If copy managers are working against you because the data is corrupt, you can always try to copy using dd, but I don't know if that'll help you very much.