One of my HDDs is giving me C5 - current pending sector count

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Backup and keep eye on it. Might fail or it might still last a long time, nobody knows, only time tells. If under warranty, replace. But backups are important, isn't this common sense?

>>61473234
Yeah I got a backup. I'm mostly unsure about what exactly the error means, or if it's more like a warning or something temporary.

>>61473197
SMART errors man.. idk I would back up immediately like the other anon said.

>>61473273
Means your drive has found possibly bad sectors and they are waiting to get reallocated or something, I'm not a expert on those, you probably should Google it instead of trusting me. I got bunch of drives with pending or reallocated sectors which are really old but still work. It might fail or it might not, you should backup often to minimize data loss if it fails and when it does, you just replace it and restore from backups.
Keep monitoring the drive, if the count keeps rising then it might be going bad

>>61473273
Overwrite all the free space with random data.