[windows2000] Re: OT: SMART with harddrives
- From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:24:47 +0200
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:55:52 -0400, Jeff Stockard wrote:
>If you look at the original post he asked how the drive could have 6
>years of "power on" time. In the additional information, he said it was
>a Maxtor 300 GB drive. I don't think you could buy one of those in
>1998.
>I would have to guess that Diskcheckup gave you some bad information.
>You may need to ask them where their software gets this kind of faulty
>information also.
>That is the only answer I know of.
I was thinking in the same lanes. THe diskcheckup applet is made by
Passmark, who are ok and shouldn't release bad software I think.
>http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm
I just now saw that they have a later release of the software,
which I'll try and see if I get the same out-of-this-world poweron
times.
BRB.
>Original post
>>> >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?
>>> >
>
>Added information
>>> The particular drive was one of those new maxtor 300GB-series kind
>>> of type, so I'd say it's not a refurbished one.
BW,
Sorin
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