[windows2000] Re: OT: SMART with harddrives
- From: Jeff Malczewski <jmalczewski@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:08:31 -0400
No problem.. However, I doubt that ALL the hard drives you have are
refurbished (or were they all purchased together in one lot?)... I'd keep
poking around.. Perhaps contact the drive's manufacturer? They might be
able to provide some insight on this..
-----Original Message-----
From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:03 AM
To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [windows2000] Re: OT: SMART with harddrives
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:52:38 -0400, Jeff Malczewski wrote:
>I have purchased re-furbished hard drives on numerous occasions. It
>usually happens when a customer returns a drive that has been opened
>(whether or not is has been used is usually not a factor) or when a
>customer sends a drive back for warranty and that drive is either a)
>not broken or b) easily repaired. Read the fine print.. About 6 or 7
>years ago I had a 1.7Gb IDE Seagate, and it went bad. Seagate's
>solution was to send me a refurbished hard drive for the
>replacement...
I had no idea... I guess we learn something new every day. Thx for
the info!
>> >SS> Just checked a slighly flakey harddrive with a tool called
>> >SS> diskcheckup, and it reported that the particular drive had had
>> >SS> 50875 power on hours. That would translate to about 6 years ontime,
>> >SS> right?
>> >
>> >SS> Now, I know for a fact that this specific hd was bought and
>> >SS> installed (by me) about 8 months ago, so what gives?
>> >
>> >SS> Do any of you what this "power on hours" actually means, as my
>> >SS> initial thought was that it would indicate for how long the drive
>> >SS> been up and running ("on").
>> >
>> >SS> I also checked the other two harddrives on the same computer, and
>> >SS> those also report power-on times in the 50-60k hrs range, in fact
>> >SS> other drives on other computers I checked out of curiousity also
>> >SS> report totally hillarious power on hours. We do run our servers and
>> >SS> clients 24/7, but none of those are even as old as the hd SMART
>> >SS> power-on flag indicates.
>> >
>> >SS> Is the SMART-features at all reliable??
>> >
>> >SS> This is weird... Thx for any hints
>> >
>> >The only suggestion I'd have is that the drive was refurbished. I've
>> >bought some hard drives that were great deals only to find out that they
>> >were refurbished and that was not made clear to me at the time of
purchase.
>>
>> The particular drive was one of those new maxtor 300GB-series kind
>> of type, so I'd say it's not a refurbished one.
>>
>> Refurbished? How common is that? I've never heard of companies
>> refurbishing harddrives and selling them as new.
BW,
Sorin
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