T440s w/ Lenovo SSD dying? multiple events: The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

I have a nearly new T440s with Lenovo-installed SSD - in scanning the event log this morning I found 20 events (all posted yesterday at the same time) that said: 

The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

I'm not sure how much to panic.

Per Device manager this drive was mfg. by Samsung and lists the ID string:

device SCSI\Disk&Ven_SAMSUNG&Prod_MZ7TE512HMHP-000\4&90e12bd&0&000000

From some earlier poking around that I did, although the drive is mfg. by Samsung the  Samsung SSD managment tool:  The latest version of the "Samsung Magician"  - V4.4 does not recognize the drive ....

(which is a Samsung PM851 - The tool does not SAY it supports the PM851 only the PM850 drives… not sure if this is the issue or not…)

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/support/downloads.html

I can't find any similar tool for SSD maintenance / managment on the Lenovo website  :-(

(just firmware updater...)

SMART Status says:

"Uncorrectable Error Count"  and ECC Error rate are both in "FAIL" status

I'll likely open a support ticket unless one of the group here has a good suggestion?

Any thoughts appreciated!

 Pointer to older thread:

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/T400-T500-and-newer-T-series/500MB-Lenovo-installed-SSD-mfg-by-Samsung-...

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