Hi guys,
guess you heard about Seagate fraud where several retailers sold used HDD mostly EXOS as new, apparently you can check this with smartmontools version 7.4 or higher
Actually I have recertified EXOS but this sounds so fishy
my result says it is passed but how should I know if its true, my recertified had reset anyways:
=== Checking device: /dev/sda ===
SMART: 3088
FARM: 3088
RESULT: PASS
What do you think about this?
An easy check is using
sudo smartctl -l farm /dev/sdX
Look for “Power on Hours”. The example below was bought from a danish web shop as new. But the farm data shows almost 3 years of use.
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.8.0-52-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Seagate Field Access Reliability Metrics log (FARM) (GP Log 0xa6)
FARM Log Page 0: Log Header
FARM Log Version: 3.7
Pages Supported: 6
Log Size: 98304
Page Size: 16384
Heads Supported: 24
Number of Copies: 0
Reason for Frame Capture: 0
FARM Log Page 1: Drive Information
Serial Number: ZL2HZDYZ
World Wide Name: 0x5000c500db6ca3ab
Device Interface: SATA
Device Capacity in Sectors: 31251759104
Physical Sector Size: 4096
Logical Sector Size: 512
Device Buffer Size: 268435456
Number of Heads: 18
Device Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Firmware Rev: SN03
ATA Security State (ID Word 128): 0x01621
ATA Features Supported (ID Word 78): 0x016cc
ATA Features Enabled (ID Word 79): 0x0000000000000040
Power on Hours: 24267
Spindle Power on Hours: 0
Head Flight Hours: 0
Head Load Events: 1
Power Cycle Count: 8
Hardware Reset Count: 0
Spin-up Time: 0 ms
Ubuntu 22 is still running 7.2 
You could probably use a live CD with debian and install smartmontools there
sudo apt install smartmontools
I did with container alpine has 7.4 
docker run -itd --rm --privileged -v /dev:/dev --name alp alpine
docker exec -it alp sh
apk add smartmontools
Nice 
I can use that. I have a ubuntu server as well, with too low version of smartmontools
You can also use seatools from Seagate. You can replace the smartmontools with the last version on their bootable stick.
So, it is easy to detect on Seagate hard disks. I wonder how common this kind of fraud is with WD and Toshiba drives.
docker exec -it alp sh