Samsung EVO 840 SSD S.M.A.R.T Event

brodg

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Feb 10, 2015
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Hello I have three 1TB Samsung EVO 840 SSD running on RAID 0 on a new laptop (bought it a couple of days ago). Yesterday I got a warning from Intel Rapid Storage Technology software saying one of the disks was at risk because of a SMART event. I downloaded GSmartControl and found out the failing attribute is "Used Reserved Block Count (Total)". Here's a comparison between the failing drive and one of the others:
Bad drive
Good drive

My question is: Is this something serious? Should I return the drive and get a new one?

Thank you very much in advance for you help. Regards,
 
Solution
Yes, a new drive should not have this. I would return it. Neither of these SMART reports look they are for a new drive. This is an impending failure, and the drive should be taken out of service.