XPost: aus.computers   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   In aus.computers Paul  wrote:   
   > On Tue, 11/25/2025 12:54 AM, Felix wrote:   
   >> This is doing my head in. Here's the relative test results.   
   >> I have no idea what to make of them (but you do)   
   >>   
   >> https://auslink.info/HD/   
   >   
   > The results don't seem credible.   
   > They're weird looking.   
      
   They look fine to me for a healthy drive.   
      
   > I don't see a power-on hours field, or maybe   
   > I do, and it is lifetime *2 hours* ? Bullshit.   
      
   The power-on hours field on some drives wraps around to zero after   
   so many hours, so that's not always abnormal.   
      
   > You have a count of "1" in Current Pending Sector count.   
   > Which is suspicious, and those start to show up   
   > near end of life. These seem to happen when the   
   > spares are getting low, and the drive is about   
   > to start reporting CRC errors because there are   
   > no spares to fix that.   
      
   You can see how many reallocated sectors it reports already having   
   and that's zero! No problem.   
      
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   > It is your call, on whether this is merely a novelty   
   > observation experiment, or, you are serious about   
   > getting the data off. If I was coming to your house   
   > right now to help, I would be bringing two hard   
   > drives, a known-working 1TB and a known-working larger   
   > one (in case file-at-a-time recovery is attempted).   
   > But the project isn't going to get very far, if the   
   > thing is a mass of errors. Just the time it would take   
   > to reach the other end of the drive, may exceed the number   
   > of hours left before it dies.   
      
   Well he hasn't shown more than typical file system corruption that   
   can result from a sudden power-off or software crash. But then he   
   hasn't expressed whether he's interested in the data or wants to   
   re-use the drive. In the former case, he should stop messing around   
   looking at SMART data and make a disk image. In the latter case run   
   a self-test as I suggested before and if that passes then reformat   
   and get on with using it because the SMART data looks as good as   
   you'd expect from any used drive.   
      
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