Question Refurbished Seagate Exos 12TB crystaldiskinfo good or bad?

[oddjobbers000]

Just bought this drive and haven't done any test on it yet. Are the values good or bad? Thanks.

 

[Lutfij]

I went looking through those parameters(notably the ones with high numbers), you're good to use that drive, though as with anything in the world of data, make sure you've backed up anything that's mission critical.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Just bought this drive and haven't done any test on it yet. Are the values good or bad?

You can see it yourself - status is reported good.
Relocated sectors - zero,
Pending sectors - zero.

I'd suggest, you write drive full with data at least once.
If there are any problems with the drive, that would reveal it.

 

[CountMike]

Just bought this drive and haven't done any test on it yet. Are the values good or bad? Thanks.

It doesn't really matter as long as it's all good because firmware could be and is often flashed in such HDDs to make them like new. Only time will tel. To that effect you can artificially age it by filling it up and deleting (not just format) once or several times and check for changes.

 

[Misgar]

I was tempted to buy one of these refurbished ST12000NM0127 drives on Amazon a while back but was put off by Backblaze stats for similar Seagate drives. Mind you, just because one SKU has a higher failure rate, doesn't mean another SKU will be similar.

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/cheap-seagate-st12000nm0127.3856928/

Hard disks can fail at any time, regardless of whether they're brand new, refurbished or second hand. Just make plenty of backups.