[ale] Can you run back the odometer on a SMARTD drive?

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

the data _can_ be altered but likely only by the drive maker.

Most likely the refurb group put in a new drive.

Drive makers do refurb drives by replacing the board. That will reset the
SMART data.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> **
>
> I got a supposedly refurbished HP desktop from Tiger Direct.
>
> Various flavors of SMARTD utilities on Windows and Centos reported very
> low hours on the drive, like in the range of 5 hours.
>
> Does this mean that the refurb operation put in a new disk drive, or is
> there a way of re-initializing the SMARTD data?
>
> (or, do the drive manufacturers refurb their own drives and send out used
> drives with zero hours on them? )
>
> Neal
>
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