I recently purchased a Seagate Exos X16 from Amazon. To be specific it was this one for £188.90. I was cautious that the vendor was not Seagate and was a third party seller for a reduced rate, so I thought it best to check the smart values and serial number after it arrived as usually this means the drive is of questionable origin.
At this price point I knew I was taking a bit of a gamble (and S.M.A.R.T data can be overwritten I think) but the data would hopefully provide some insight into what I had actually purchased. £188.90 is significantly below the £214 buy box, but it is not impossible that the drive didn’t come from Seagate as sold.
When it arrived I took a photo. Packing was clearly custom and the ESD bag was not OEM. Oh well, lets see what smartctl says.
Running the disk drive through Seagates warranty checker, the drive is likely from one of their storage appliances. This makes warranty replacement not possible except when done through the Amazon seller’s original equipment.
I also plugged the drive into my Proxmox NAS to see if the drive had been running at all and given the S.M.A.R.T attribute (240 0xF0 “Head Flying Hours”) it looks like the drive has never been started as it has only been up about the time it took me to run the command after connecting the drive.
[email protected]:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.136-1-pve] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Exos X16
Device Model: ST16000NM001G-2KK103
Serial Number: ZL2EPPX1
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0c9385ca4
Firmware Version: SN03
User Capacity: 16,000,900,661,248 bytes [16.0 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-4 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Mar 8 14:55:15 2024 GMT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 575) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: (1485) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x70bd) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 044 Pre-fail Always - 2624
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 1
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 045 Pre-fail Always - 447
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 1
18 Head_Health 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 078 063 040 Old_age Always - 22 (Min/Max 21/22)
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 022 040 000 Old_age Always - 22 (0 21 0 0 0)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Pressure_Limit 0x0023 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0h+01m+14.651s
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 2624
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
[email protected]:~# Based on this I was sold a 5 year warranty but I am not able to claim it should something happen to the drive. As I only use it for infrequent backup I will take on the risk.
