CGar Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Sorry if this is a dumb question, but a quick search didn't turn anything up. Stablebit Scanner detected some bad sectors on one of my old hard drives (THANK YOU STABLEBIT) this morning and I have started shopping replacements. I'm looking at the Seagate Exos X14 12TB, but one of the Amazon reviews mentions that Seagate drives use some non-standard S.M.A.R.T. reporting values. Searching Reddit similarly brought up many accounts of people freaking out for no reason for the same problem, Seagate's 48-bit hex S.M.A.R.T. reporting format is different than the industry standard. I'm using much older Seagates (6 yrs+) with Stablebit Scanner, and infact the failing drive is a Seagate. So my question is, if I purchase a newer Seagate hard drive, is Scanner going to have any issues reading/reporting correct S.M.A.R.T. information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 It should be able to. We don't really report the raw values, since a lot of manufacturers (especially SSD ones) report in a non-standard method. We have a lot of drives doing that, actually. So the drives in question should be okay. And if they are not, let us know, and we can see about adding some interpretations for the SMART data for the drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGar Posted February 3, 2020 Author Share Posted February 3, 2020 Thank you so much for the information! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 You are very welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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