[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[Rob Smith]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Rob Smith <kormoc at mythtv.org> wrote:
> too bad that's many more sectors then the drive has in reality. But
> hey, keep assuming you know better then Seagate (who tells us to *not*
> trust these numbers).

I forgot to give my reference:
"The SMART values that might be read out by third-party SMART software
are not based on how the values may be used within the Seagate hard
drives. Seagate does not provide support for software programs that
claim to read individual SMART attributes and thresholds.  There may
be some historical correctness on older drives, but new drives, no
doubt, will have incorporated newer solutions, attributes and
thresholds.

Seagate uses the general SMART Status, pass or fail. The individual
attributes and threshold values are proprietary and we do not offer a
utility that will read out the values. If the values that you are
seeing with a third party SMART utility are not displaying properly or
seem to be false, please contact your software vendor for further
explanation of the values."

and

"Please remember that these third-party programs do not have
proprietary access to Seagate hard disk information, and therefore
often provide inconsistent and inaccurate results.  SeaTools is more
consistent and more accurate and is the standard Seagate uses to
determine hard drive failure."

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=203971