Hi, Just checked a slighly flakey harddrive with a tool called diskcheckup, and it reported that the particular drive had had 50875 power on hours. That would translate to about 6 years ontime, right? Now, I know for a fact that this specific hd was bought and installed (by me) about 8 months ago, so what gives? Do any of you what this "power on hours" actually means, as my initial thought was that it would indicate for how long the drive been up and running ("on"). I also checked the other two harddrives on the same computer, and those also report power-on times in the 50-60k hrs range, in fact other drives on other computers I checked out of curiousity also report totally hillarious power on hours. We do run our servers and clients 24/7, but none of those are even as old as the hd SMART power-on flag indicates. Is the SMART-features at all reliable?? This is weird... Thx for any hints BW, Sorin > Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmfak.uu.se/organisk/ > Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> 3 signals > >> GSM > Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 > Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 > SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b > > Public PGP key available on request. > > () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail > /\ > > Harmless tagline follows: > > BOFH excuse follows: ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks > can't connect ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor StressedPuppy.com Games Feeling stressed out? Check out our games to relieve your stress. http://www.StressedPuppy.com ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm