Greetings, I ordered 4 Seagate IRONWOLF Pro 12Tb hard drives to create a Z2 raid. 3 HD arrived perfectly sealed. 1 however no, it had the anti-static bag already opened. Do you know how I can find out if it has already been used or if it has problems? Do you know from the SMART logs if you can se…

If you bought a drive as New and the packaging had been opened, then without question you should return it for a replacement. You need to review the Power On Hours and Power Cycles attributes in the Smart output to see whether it has been previously powered on and for how long. No new drive …

my seagate was also in a huge ESD A1 envelope inside its postcard box. I purchased the 4 Seagate hard drives from a store in my area for the very reasons you explained. Not long ago I purchased a WD Gold 12Tb hard disk on Amazon. It arrived perfectly sealed in an ESD bag inside its cardboard box w…

Z: This is the hard drive that has the package opened. Do you see anything abnormal? Unlike the other 3 hard disks that worked for about 3 hours, this one lasted 26 hours HD Z: [Z_Info] [Z] Values of the other 3 hard drives that arrived in sealed packages: HD Y: [Y_Info] HD X: [X_Info…

What is weird is that every single drive has a Reallocated Sector Count of 10. A new drive should have a reallocated sector count of 0. Indeed, my current 5x 4TB Ironwolf drives have been running for 20 months and STILL have a reallocated sector count of 0. IMO (by which I mean I am guessing) this…

[image] Protopia: What is weird is that every single drive has a Reallocated Sector Count of 10. Afaik the threshold value not mean that, instead the RAW value do.

[image] Protopia: reallocated sector count of 0 I now tried on the Seagate website to register the serial number of the hard disk received in the open package. The recording was done. It says warranty expires March 19, 2030 [image]

In this WD GOLD 2Tb with 229day of work Reallocated sector=140 [image]

I have successfully registered all 4 hard drive serial numbers on the Seagate site On the label of the box containing each hard disk there is a label with the serial number and the words: PRODUCT IN THAILAND DOM: 12/2024 [image] strange…The warranty expiration date is lower only in the one I r…

[image] oxyde: Afaik the threshold value not mean that, instead the RAW value do. D’oh! I was reading the wrong column!!

How to check hard disk if new or used

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oxyde February 9, 2025, 9:02am 2

https://forums.truenas.com/t/new-hard-drives-with-20-000-hours-of-use-being-sold

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How to check hard disk if new or used

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