Reallocated Sector Count = 67

[Stephen]

I am running the latest Ubuntu and the new Gnome disk monitor, 
*Palimpsest, is complaining that I have a drive with 67 reallocated 
sectors, and I should replace it soon.

Google shows this is a rather hot topic.

I find lots of discussion, but no serious discussion as to how high a 
number of reallocated sectors is a cause for concern.

I understand that there is a bit of a performance hit, but that is not 
an issue.

The number of reallocated sectors has not increased in the last three days.

Comments from dual boot users indicates that Windows does not care about 
this at all.

Anyone have any thoughts to share?

Thanks

Stephen
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