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... On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:34:37 +0200, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 22:26:00 -0700, Mike Dillinger wrote: > > >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 > > > 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: Domain controller not responding > > > > > ******************************************************** > 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 > ******************************************************** 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