On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:09:57 -0800 (PST), rowan194 put finger to keyboard and composed:
My 13GB Seagate drive reported 119 reallocated sectors just before I took it out of service (because it was growing new defects on a weekly basis):
Its S.M.A.R.T. status was still OK.
I think the figure of 99 you are referring to may be the "normalised" value, not the raw value. I believe my 13GB drive would have been allowed to develop several thousand bad sectors before its S.M.A.R.T. status would have been reported as bad.
- Franc Zabkar