233 days of power on, but only 7 start/stop count. Is this legit?

[Kepalajamuran]

I found a cheap 3TB WD Red hard drive for sale. But i found the screen shot of it's Sentinel analysis is fishy:

only 7 start/stop count of it's 233 days of power on.

What dou you think, should i buy it?

 

[rgd1101]

so it was on 24/7?

 

[USAFRet]

Absolutely not unusual numbers.

A WD Red is a NAS drive. NAS boxes are often ON for weeks at a time without a reboot.
I suspect the 4TB Seagate Ironwolf drives in my NAS would be similar.

 

[jmcgaw]

I have a couple of 3tB WD Red drives as well as a some 6tb variants in my Drobo 5N and , though I'm not going to remove one to check, it is almost certain that I'd find the same sort of numbers since the only times it is down is when there is an out-and-out power failure and some of these drives go back to 2014 running 24X7. Server use is just like that. OK, that said, I don't know that I'd trust buying a used drive that didn't have some sort of enforceable guarantee/warranty -- new drives are relatively cheap and data is valuable.

 

[USAFRet]

OK, that said, I don't know that I'd trust buying a used drive that didn't have some sort of enforceable guarantee/warranty -- new drives are relatively cheap and data is valuable.

Right.
Unless this 3TB were under $40, I wouldn't.