Program for determining HDD usage?

[legnoguado]

Another member mentioned to me that there's a program that can tell you how many hours a HDD has been used . . . anybody happen to know about it?

Thanks in advance.

[aaa]

The feature is called SMART. Look for an app that can read all/most of the SMART stuff from a drive. There's time running, number of spin-ups, number of head parks, etc.

[RealBlackStuff]

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/smart/smart.htm

You'll want the Power On Hours Count

[closersource]

A word of caution into reading too much into SMART values.

SMART is not as standardized as much as you might expect. Different manufacturers have different proprietary SMART entries at different places. For example all Seagate drives appear to have a lot of RAW READ ERRORS and Fujitsu mobile drives implement another value where the REALLOCATED SECTOR value is. The former thus has poor health according to some SMART programs and the latter has been known to be shown as fail in SMART, yet the drive passes Fujitsu's own tests and is in reality absolutely fine. After all you can't have ten times the bad sectors than all available sectors on a drive can you?

When considering power-on-hours you have to consider what metric is used. Many manufacturers use hours, but some use minutes.