Question about SMART

[Paolo Galtieri]

I have 2 Seagate FreeAgent Go 1Tb drives.  These are portable drives 
that get their power through USB.  Both these drives are about 1 year 
old.  Every time I login I get a notification that both these drives may 
be going bad.  The reason is too many bad sectors.  One drive is 
formatted as it originally came, i.e NTFS the other was reformatted as 
Ext4. I have checked both drives using Seagate's tools (in non 
destructive mode) as well as checking the NTFS one in Windows 7.  No 
problems where reported.  The question is should I really believe what 
SMART is telling me or is it just  stupid :-)

There are no disk errors reported or any other issues that might 
indicate the drive is going bad.

Any thoughts/comments are appreciated.

Paolo