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 <gilesorr@gmail.com> 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/ gilesorr@gmail.com