SMART parameter ?

[combine]

Hello, I recently got one used HDD for my old laptop, and under Linux Mint -> Disks I saw a very strange thing. There are no bad sectors, but there is a parameter -> Seek Error Rate and it has a value of 34544120612 which is strange.

HDD is Seagate 100GB

What do you think ?

 

[popatim]

To quote fellow user Fzabkar

The normalised value of Seagate's Seek Error Rate is logarithmic. A value of 60 indicates that the drive has recorded 1 seek error in 1 million seeks, 70 indicates 1 error in 10 million, and 80 is 1 in 100 million. A value of 30 is 1 error in 1000, and 40 is 1 in 10,000.

A drive begins life with an SER of 100. After it records 1 million seeks the SER is recomputed to reflect the actual SER. Prior to that, the SER is considered to be statistically insignificant and remains at 100.

The raw value of the attribute records the total lifetime seeks in the lower 32 bits, and the total lifetime seek errors in the upper 16 bits.

The formula for SER is ...

normalised SER = -10 log (total seek errors / total seeks)