February 10, 20251 yr First a link to an article on Tom's Hardware: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-fraudulent-hard-drives-scandal-deepens-as-clues-point-at-chinese-chia-mining-farms Also there was this recent thread: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/186024-reallocated-sector-ct-is-23-on-a-new-disk Which contains this post: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/186024-reallocated-sector-ct-is-23-on-a-new-disk/#findComment-1519146 With the manufacturer's warranty expiring six years ago, it would appear that someone also reworked the SMART entries on this drive also. Anyone looking for a bargain on a new hard drive should be very careful if the price is more than about 20% below the normal discounted price for that drive. Be sure that you vet the vendor very careful and check the warranty expiration date as soon as you get it. (Personally, I prefer to purchase from a vendor based in my county because I know that the vendor is perpetrating a fraud of this type there is a good chance he would be prosecuted.)
February 10, 20251 yr For Seagate drives, you can check to see if the SMART values were clocked with: smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX smartmontools 7.4 or higher required, in this case., Unraid 7.0.0+
February 11, 20251 yr 22 hours ago, JorgeB said: For Seagate drives, you can check to see if the SMART values were clocked with: smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX smartmontools 7.4 or higher required, in this case., Unraid 7.0.0+ Would it be worth adding an automated check with a warning, so people unaware of the situation would get a heads up when they first install said disk in Unraid?
February 11, 20251 yr Maybe, not sure how big of a problem it actually is, but could be a feature request.
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