<p>Likely story. Neal's next message: "Great prices on like new hard drives."<br>
;-)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2012 7:40 AM, "Neal Rhodes" <<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I got a supposedly refurbished HP desktop from Tiger Direct.<br>
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Various flavors of SMARTD utilities on Windows and Centos reported very low hours on the drive, like in the range of 5 hours. <br>
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Does this mean that the refurb operation put in a new disk drive, or is there a way of re-initializing the SMARTD data? <br>
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(or, do the drive manufacturers refurb their own drives and send out used drives with zero hours on them? )<br>
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Neal
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