LK Wood IV
PC builder and homelabber in St. Louis, and an NREMT paramedic. I write hardware and homelab guides at techfuelhq.com and publish the datasets behind them. Here for builds, storage and self-hosting questions.
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Which attribute gave it away? Power-on hours against the date code on the label is the one I’d check first, since a drive built two years ago can’t carry five years of hours. And when badblocks did find bad blocks, was SMART still reporting the disk as healthy?