I just salvaged the hard drive from an abandoned DirectTV box that "smoked." Note: With their approval ...
I'm just trying to determine how much confidence I can have in it. It was interesting to see that it was formatted Linux XFS initially. I reworked it with gparted and ext4 to test it. Presently it is in a USB adapter connected to a USB2 port on this computer. It appears to have been running for 2.6+ years, I have a number of drives with at least that much time on them and they are still going.
Any thoughts on making sense of smrtctl are appreciated.
Thanks,
Bob
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-4.9.13-201.fc25.x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Pipeline HD 5900.2 Device Model: ST3500312CS Serial Number: 5VV9WJQQ LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0490e4346 Firmware Version: SC13 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 5900 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 1.5 Gb/s) Local Time is: Wed Mar 15 13:01:12 2017 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 074 074 000 Old_age Always - 23096 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 85