smartctl -l farm /dev/sd<n>
(My two "new" 16TB Exos drives had 0 hours (regular) and ~18k hours (farm) - DOM 04JUN2021 and 07JUN2021. Also, zfs refused to format the drive: 'already formatted as ddf_raid_member'.)
is it lack of tooling, as demonstrated by needing the last smartmontools version to even read them, or some protection in the firmware to prevent resetting them (hey, no legit business resetting the power-on hours to zero...).
I checked the recertified ironwolf 12TB drives I bought, and both SMART and FARM report times in line with when I installed them in my nas. Of course, since they're recertified by seagate themselves, they may very well have a backdoor to reset FARM.
Incredible. Even stuff like range of voltages on voltage rails that the drive has seen, etc. I'm proud of my power supply, looking at the data. :D
Wasn't particularly concerned about mine, but thought it'd be fun to poke at.
(Debian 12: 10 June 2023; smartmontools 7.4: 1 August 2023)
But I don't see how to gain access to the whatever logs are buried in the drive's memory. The instructions for the utility don't provide any guidance on this. How does one actually extract logs from the drive?
The whole thing has been a non-trivial waste of time.
I have a new (?) 8TB Seagate drive out in front of my house right now, just delivered.