[smartmontools-support] two new HDDs: Number of Mechanical Start Failures: 6

serando serando at sunrise.ch
Thu Nov 10 09:35:06 CET 2022


Thank you.

I was looking for another Firmware. But was not successful.
If it does have a bug in the firmware, would this bug reduce the 
lifetime of this HDD? Or does the bug just cause Smartctl to display 
something wrong/incomplete? Or is it not possible to answer that?



Am 09.11.22 um 18:00 schrieb Franc Zabkar:
> I would think that there is a possible bug in the firmware. I would 
> have thought that each Mechanical Start Failure would have resulted in 
> a corresponding Spin Retry???
>
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