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

[neal at mnopltd.com (Neal Rhodes)]

I should be more accurate.   TigerDirect represented the machine as an
"off-lease".   They did not explicitly say refurbished. 

The other surprise is that it looked to me like it came with HP
packaging.     Most of their off-leases are in generic packaging. 



Neal

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 07:44 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> 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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