First alerted via CheckMate and confirmed by TTP8, a 3TB external drive has 8 contiguous bad blocks. The drive is in 2 partitions: (1) Time Machine (3) bootable backup. Currently, the 8 bad blocks contain no information.
Is it safe to continue using this drive as configured... or should it be replaced?
Is it safe to continue using this drive as configured... or should it be replaced?