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Thread: Help interpreting SmartCTL results. Did I buy a bum drive?


hi, bought 'no brand' hard drive off ebay sold new never used. it's 10k rpm 150gb.

have been experiencing rash of random segfaults , other bad behavior on new ubuntu 12.04 box (c2d, 4gb, hp dc7800, etc.)

ran smartctl on test it. results can seen here:

http://pastebin.com/rgkjpqew

2 things stuck out @ me.

1) id#9, disk total life. should around 60 hours. reports @ 16755 hours. tried changing report number minutes , seconds (with -v9,minutes option), neither gave correct results (279hours , 4 hours respectively, neither of correct.) going on? has disk been used years? there other explanation? think disk indeed 'new never used' marketed, or have been had?

2) line "ata error count: 50638" gives me pause. there reasonable explanation that? 50,000 kind of seems lot of errors, many have made in whole life!

basically, should return ebayer defective/misrepresented part, or there innocent explanation , maybe drive still sound?

trying decide whether should install again on disk or throw in towel , wait weeks new hard drive come before getting enjoy shiny new (to me) computer. thank reading!

sure looks used drive me. in fact, there lot of errors reported. example, reallocated event count 383 (should 0) - means there 383 attempts replace failed sectors. 487 shown reallocated sectors (replaced).

send if can. attach copy of report if seller has question! should win dispute easily.


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