I’m looking at this one 4TB drive I got recently that has a manufacturing date in 2013, total written amount of 12 TB, restart count ~500, but total power-on only around 1,000h. I was wondering what happened there, why a restart every 2h, and was it really used intensely for only 1 month in 10 years…

What are some weird ones you’ve seen?

I’m assuming SMART attributes can’t be set selectively can they? AFAIK SMART reset is an all-or-nothing deal that wipes the whole thing.