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 <[email protected]> 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? -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
