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

[Jim Kinney]

cool! Off-lease is NOT refurbished. so it may be a vary new system that was
just barely used before the company went under or never reissued it (hot
spare on a shelf for (l)user).

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Neal Rhodes <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:

> **
> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
>
>
> --
> --
> James P. Kinney III
>
> As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
> consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
> please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
> - *2011 Noam Chomsky*
>
> *http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/*
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing listAle at ale.orghttp://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists athttp://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>


-- 
-- 
James P. Kinney III

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to
consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they
please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
- *2011 Noam Chomsky

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/
*
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20120321/7ecf3a57/attachment-0001.html