[ale] Can you run back the odometer on a SMARTD drive?

Richard Bronosky Richard at Bronosky.com
Tue Mar 20 08:20:29 EDT 2012


Likely story. Neal's next message: "Great prices on like new hard drives."
;-)
On Mar 20, 2012 7:40 AM, "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> **
>
> I got a supposedly refurbished HP desktop from Tiger Direct.
>
> Various flavors of SMARTD utilities on Windows and Centos reported very
> low hours on the drive, like in the range of 5 hours.
>
> Does this mean that the refurb operation put in a new disk drive, or is
> there a way of re-initializing the SMARTD data?
>
> (or, do the drive manufacturers refurb their own drives and send out used
> drives with zero hours on them? )
>
> Neal
>
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