I bought a used maxtor, who will look at SMART?

Question

Iron

I bought myself a used train maxtor STM3500418AS for 500GB, please look at smart and say leave it or

Answer 1

It doesn't look like boo. Judging by SMART, the disk was not used.

Answer 2

Here is a good article on SMART

Answer 3

decent drive, especially for the price. If you want guarantees, you can fill it with cycle 3 with data on the string and repeat the smart check, if everything is ok, then it really seems to be like new

Answer 4

View the firmware on the Seagate website, if there is a flash for this model, otherwise Seagate likes to catch the SS fly.