-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I got an ancient laptop (Pentium IV, 0.5GiB) as a present from a friend (you may remember the video problem I had with it, solved). It is "running" openSUSE 12.3. The hard disk it came with was totally useless. 20GB, full of write errors. So I bought a new one for it - I was lucky to locate a new unit with parallel IDE, 2.5" size, expensive for what it is: Hitachi Travelstar HD 2.5" 80GB IDE/ATA, 37.15€ plus 21% tax. Oh, well... no alternative. Well, I had located a 20GB unit, 15€ plus shipping, private person. Too small, probably. The 80GB unit I got from a reputable dealer, that I get almost all my hardware currently. The unit came sealed in its original bag. However... Smartctl test says it is an old unit: +++···················································· AmonLanc:~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 6.0 2012-10-10 r3643 [i686-linux-3.7.10-1.1-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-12, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K160 Device Model: Hitachi HTS541680J9AT00 Serial Number: SB024CJGG8ZLMD LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 572c415d7 Firmware Version: SB2OA7AH User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes [80.0 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 1 Local Time is: Sat Aug 17 23:02:46 2013 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled ... SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 162 162 033 Pre-fail Always - 1 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 10256 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 056 056 000 Old_age Always - 19423 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 455 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 58 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 10908 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 177 177 000 Old_age Always - 31 (Min/Max 16/60) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19423 - # 2 Extended captive Completed without error 00% 19399 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19399 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. AmonLanc:~ # ····················································++- 19423 hours? How is that possible? And so many values at zero? If I am the victim of a fraud, surely it can not have 20Khours, right? That's too much for a laptop unit, they tend to break down earlier than 6000 hours. Maybe a refurbished disk, old chipset, new platter assembly? A bug in smartctl? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIP8/AACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XFFgCfUHFLReua+6mBgz2J5xho52Ua h/sAnA7Kmoehx1lkmKHJ/KVVcUbsbtF4 =lybL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----