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Originally Posted by ratbastid
It'd be interesting to know the usage pattern of those hard drives. Was the machine kept running 24/7, or was it shut down at night or when not in use? Was it largely idle when not in use, or was he constantly seeding torrents on the machine or something equally disk-intensive? Every hard drive fails, given time and usage.
Still, you won't find a new machine with that spec for $400. Seems like a decent price to me.
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SMART provides several old-age attributes. Look for:
Power on hours, power cycle count, and error values.
Be careful. SMART is a spec; drives are implementations. Sometimes values are stored as minutes instead of hours while others have wraparound bugs/features. Moral: get the model and google a reality check on the values.
Anyway, $400 seems fair if he's really giving up the windows product key.