If Seagate suddenly changes their RMA procedures, then I would worry. With as many drives as Seagate sells, there is no easy/feasible way for them to check every drive upon receipt, and approve/deny the warranty according to power on hours. ![]() If we were talking about a drive manufacturer that sells 1000 drives a month, and get's 10 RMA's a month, then I would worry about this. My somewhat abused Seagate Exos 16TB is at: 12674 power on hours 29631 load cycle count 68 power cycle count 156 start/stop count So at 18 months old, my Exos 16TB is at 5 of its load cycle life, and 0.3 of its start/stop cycle life. I'm sure I could read the fine print on my things I buy on a daily basis that would make me ponder this. The Start/stop cycle count is recorded as 50,000 lifetime, but your drives are likely well under that. Heck I'm spending the first 100 hours (4.2%) of the drive's life just running a 2-cycle preclear. I agree, I had bought the first drive on the basis of their "Best-fit applications" list and that it had a 2 year warranty, it was when I was considering buying a second that I looked further (I wanted to check the power requirements) and saw the odd 2400 hour issue and this has made me stop to consider what to do. I would generally prefer to buy drives and other parts where I know for sure what I am getting. Yes, there's a two year warranty, but the fact is that they specify a two year warranty constrained by a ridiculously low power on hours figure, bearing in mind that they also promote (in the first document quoted) the drives as suitable for home servers and NAS devices, which are typically powered 24/7. The point is that I, and probably others, would worry about it. The Raw value shows the actual powered-on time, usually in. The normalized value decreases over time, typically from 100 to 0. 9: Power-On Hours Count: Estimated remaining lifetime, based on the time a device was powered on. The Power Settings window confirms that the power setting for your drive has been changed. Click Save to save the Drive Sleep Interval setting. Select an interval from the dropdown menu (e.g. Some of the Power On hours were very high, in the 20,000-28,000 hour area and not once did they balk at this. Seek Time Performance: Characterizes performance of mechanical seeks of a disk head. Click Drive Settings in the Drives panel. ![]() Operating at higher temperatures will reduce useful life of the product. Seagate does not recommend operating at sustained case temperatures above 60☌. 97 12 - Drive Power Cycle Count Attribute Type(s): Online Data Collection. specification, which may increase acoustic and power to operational levels. Seagate and Western Digital, as the world leaders in HDD manufacturing, b. Can you share where you purchased these drives so Seagate can continue to. For each of these I requested an RMA, and received a replacement drive. The power cycle count is the number of times the thing has been turned off. Of these drives 6 of them in total had high re-allocated sectors near or above 100. In the last 6 months I had 6 1.5TB Seagate 7200 RPM drives, and a couple 2 TB Seagate drives which were nearing their warranty expiration. To me, all this is moot, the drive has a 2 year warranty.
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