[windows2000] Re: OT: SMART with harddrives
- From: Jeff Malczewski <jeff.malczewski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:52:38 -0400
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
>
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