I’m looking at this one 4TB drive I got recently that has a manufacturing date in 2013, total written amount of 12 TB, restart count ~500, but total power-on only around 1,000h. I was wondering what happened there, why a restart every 2h, and was it really used intensely for only 1 month in 10 years…
What are some weird ones you’ve seen?
I’m assuming SMART attributes can’t be set selectively can they? AFAIK SMART reset is an all-or-nothing deal that wipes the whole thing.
I have a drive that was decomissioned, presumably, due to 2 errors during long smart tests (within 2k hours, at roughly 30k). Other than that it has perfect SMART parameters, surface tests without issue, and has been running for a year 24/7 no problem now. Other than excessive vibration or a power issue I have no idea what could have caused that.
Wear and tear?
I’d expect that to be permanent.