On 07/10/2013 19:28, John R Pierce wrote:
On 10/7/2013 5:59 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
I am still wating for WD or SEAGATE representetive of them to describe
for me the details of how a how a drive was made from 0 to 100.
I'm sure they both consider that information trade secret.
its my understanding that testing done on the factory floor leaves the
counters cleared when the final firmware is installed. Ditto factory
'remanufactured' aka 'refurbished' drives that are tested, and
relabeled, they get cleared after test. last one of these I got, sold
as such, had a different colored label (green instead of silver) and
clearly said remanufactured, I'm pretty sure its SMART data was also
reset. What the OP got appears to be a drive that was returned,
retested and resold somewhere in the distributor-retailer train, NOT by
the factory, hence what people refer to as 'grey market'.
I've replaced a number of Seagate 1TB SAS drives, constellations I
think, and at least 2 of the 3 replacements I've done were with drives
that were clearly marked as for RMA REPLACEMENT ONLY, which I assume are
previously 'failed' drives that have gone back, been re-assessed /
re-furbished and put back into the market.
I don't know much about SMART, but I get the impression that the drives
decide to fail themselves when some metric goes anomalous, rather than
continue running and potentially cause data corruption. Therefore
there's likely to be a large number of drives that can be tweaked to go
back into production after they have 'failed'
If I buy a drive from a retailer, then I expect a factory 'new' one
though, hence my request for the manufacturer and retailer to be named
by the OP.
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