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SMART Question
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spud17
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How accurate is SMART?
I'm just breaking down a gifted PC to see what I have to play with.
It's a P4 3.0GHz running genuine XP Home.
The BIOS date, Event viewer and other files point to October 2004 being the original install date.
It has a Seagate 200GB SATA drive, the date code translates to June 2004.
It's passed all the Seatools tests, other tests on the Hirens disk show it in perfect health.
But when viewing the SMART output, either through Linux Disk Utility or using HDAT2 on the Hirens disk, it says 23 days running time but 3515 Power Cycles.
It's been well used by a family of 3, so 23 days seems odd.
I'm not too worried, it's not noisy and has no bad sectors, just curious.
I'm just breaking down a gifted PC to see what I have to play with.
It's a P4 3.0GHz running genuine XP Home.
The BIOS date, Event viewer and other files point to October 2004 being the original install date.
It has a Seagate 200GB SATA drive, the date code translates to June 2004.
It's passed all the Seatools tests, other tests on the Hirens disk show it in perfect health.
But when viewing the SMART output, either through Linux Disk Utility or using HDAT2 on the Hirens disk, it says 23 days running time but 3515 Power Cycles.
It's been well used by a family of 3, so 23 days seems odd.
I'm not too worried, it's not noisy and has no bad sectors, just curious.
Move along, nothing to see.
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