[GTALUG] Anyone familiar with SMART?

[Giles Orr]

Now that our list is back (Hallelujah, thank you Hugh and TLUG), I'm
resending this message I originally sent on the 23rd as I haven't yet
found an answer.

On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 15:18, Giles Orr <gilesorr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just bought two new, identical, external USB hard drives.  While
> I've used SMART on and off over the years, I think this is the first
> time I used it immediately on connecting a drive.  I'm using
> 'gsmartcontrol', a GUI that I'm liking.  In the "Statistics" tab I'm
> seeing, under "Rotating Media Statistics (rev 1)", "Number of
> Mechanical Start Failures" = "1".  This is straight out of the box,
> brand new.  Where this gets really weird is that both of the drives
> show exactly the same error.  These are WD easystore drives.  So ...
> is this something I should be worried about?

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Giles
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