DESCRIPTION:
Single Seagate Constellation ES 2TB - Low Hours but High Reallocated Count - Budget / Lab Drive
This is a functional but B-Grade / C-Grade enterprise drive. Very low hours, but with triple-digit reallocated sectors. Priced accordingly for budget NAS, RAID-6 / RAID-Z2 with redundancy, cold backup, or lab/testing.
DO NOT BUY if you need perfect SMART health. This is NOT a perfect health drive.
SMART REPORT - S/N: 9WM0SA71
Model: ST32000644NS 2TB
Power-On Hours: 3,209 hrs (∼0.37 years continuous)
Power Cycles: 35
Health Status:CAUTION
Reallocated Sectors Count (05): 121 (Raw: hex 79)
- Current Pending Sectors (C5): 0 - Clean / Stable
- Sector Count (C6): 0 – Clean
- Reported Uncorrectable Errors (BB): 0
- Command Timeout (BC): 0
- UltraDMA CRC Error Count (C7): 0
What This Means:
Drive has remapped 121 bad sectors to its spare area over its life. This is moderate wear. SMART threshold is 36, drive is at 98, so it is still operational per SMART, and it is currently stable with 0 pending sectors. However, spare sector reserve is reduced. It passed zero-fill and shows no active growth.
Testing & Wipe:
- scan - screenshot included
- Secure Erase / Full Zero-Fill completed
- Post-wipe verified: 0 Current Pending, 0 Uncorrectable, no new reallocations during wipe
- Drive is readable/writable and holds Use:
