How Many Hours on a Disk Drive

[smithdr]

Hi All:

I have a Western Digital hard drive that was not in service. If I put it into service, how can I determine how many hours are on this hard drive?

Thank you in advance.

Don

 

[Bigwaff]

This is posted in the "Networking" forum... by "in service", do you mean as networked attached storage?

 

[smithdr]

I posted this question about hard drives because network attached storage is often discussed. I hoped an individual might have insight on how to determine time on an individual drive. Does this help why I posted here?

Don

 

[chabig]

To my knowledge, hard drives don't track the number of hours they've been used.

 

[splifingate]

Hi All:

I have a Western Digital hard drive that was not in service. If I put it into service, how can I determine how many hours are on this hard drive?

Thank you in advance.

Don

I've used DriveDx in the past:

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[smithdr]

Thank you. I will give that a try.

Don

 

[smithdr]

Hi splifingate:

DriveDX worked well. Thank you for the suggestion.

Don