I'm wondering what SMART parameters the different hard drive manufacturers use to determine if your drive is bad enough to qualify for warranty service. In other words, if you RMAed a suspect drive, and it didn't meet any of the criteria, they would just send the drive back and tell you it's your fault.
Would they accept an RMA if any of the critical SMART attributes (5, 196, 197, 198) were non-zero? Instead, would the raw values on those critical attributes need to be above the "THRESH" value (which seems to be 36-140 for my drives for #5 and always 0 for #196-198)? Would there need to be errors on a long SMART test?
Are the answers to the above different for each manufacturer?
Would they accept an RMA if any of the critical SMART attributes (5, 196, 197, 198) were non-zero? Instead, would the raw values on those critical attributes need to be above the "THRESH" value (which seems to be 36-140 for my drives for #5 and always 0 for #196-198)? Would there need to be errors on a long SMART test?
Are the answers to the above different for each manufacturer?