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Seatools showing zero hours on old drive (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Running Seatools on a job lot of used disks, a WD Blue 2 TB came up as 0 power-on hours. It has Windows 10 installed (but no user files), so should be a few hours at least. The other SMART data looks plausible. I have used Seatools on WD drives before, and it always showed many hours for those.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try CrystalDiskInfo or WD Data Lifeguard.

That way you can check if the SMART data is really wrong, or just Seatools has a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

SMART data is basically worthless.