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What are some strange stories that the SMART of used drives has told you? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm looking at this one 4TB drive I got recently that has a manufacturing date in 2013, total written amount of 12 TB, restart count ~500, but total power-on only around 1,000h. I was wondering what happened there, why a restart every 2h, and was it really used intensely for only 1 month in 10 years...

What are some weird ones you've seen?

I'm assuming SMART attributes can't be set selectively can they? AFAIK SMART reset is an all-or-nothing deal that wipes the whole thing.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have a drive that was decomissioned, presumably, due to 2 errors during long smart tests (within 2k hours, at roughly 30k). Other than that it has perfect SMART parameters, surface tests without issue, and has been running for a year 24/7 no problem now. Other than excessive vibration or a power issue I have no idea what could have caused that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wear and tear?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'd expect that to be permanent.