Re: FW: HELP - How-to understand the SMART report - Is the drive Re-furbished or Failing

Adam Piggott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Organization Proactive Services (Computing)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28/07/2015 13:02, Jagdish S. Varma wrote:
> Dear Support We supplied 2 Western Digital 4.0TB Hard Disk drives to a
> client. He installed these last week and ran SMART tools downloaded from
> WWW.SMARTMONTOOLS.ORG<http://WWW.SMARTMONTOOLS.ORG> According to this
> user, since the report even shows the TYPE as "Pre-Fail" or "Old-Age",
> he is assuming that the Hard Disk drives are re-furbished and that they
> will fail within a max time of 30 days or so.

smartmontools is just one program that interrogates and controls SMART on
devices. It is not the organisation responsible for implementing,
documenting or standardising it, so this mailing list may not be a suitable
place for your query. There is a wealth of information on SMART and how to
read the attributes online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
-- 
Adam Piggott, Proprietor, Proactive Services (Computing)

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