Hi,
First of all: kudos! I just had a secondary storage drive start to fail on me. It was failing incremental backups, saying a device attached to the system disappeared. Thankfully, the full backup from a few days earlier was good, and I was able to restore it to a new drive. The failed drive reported "Too many bad sectors" using Western Digital's tool to do an extended check, so I've RMAed it.
I have two questions: