HDD GURU FORUMS

I'd like to reset the SMART data on an OCT Solid-2 64-GB.

I got the drive for free, but it had old firmware and wouldn't do anything. It DID allow me to upgrade the firmware, though. So I upgraded the firmware and now the drive works great.

But the SMART shows all sorts of problems, and says the drive is at EOL (End of Life). Is there a way to reset the smart?

I found a forum that kept referring to D-Flash (maybe meaning destructive flash). I cannot find anything like that anywhere.

Drive uses Indilinx Barefoot controller.

"End of life" status indicates the flash is worn out. Updating the firmware and clearing SMART values will not change the real condition of the media. It will fail again sooner than later.

Not safe to put data on it.

Best for experimentation.

labtech wrote:"End of life" status indicates the flash is worn out. Updating the firmware and clearing SMART values will not change the real condition of the media. It will fail again sooner than later.

Not safe to put data on it.

Best for experimentation.

Right, but erasing/resetting the SMART is part of my experimentation. I did the firmware upgrade about six months ago and the drive is used in a beater notebook, nothing important ever goes on it.

The trick seems to be doing the destructive firmware update, rather than the non-destructive. But I can't find the destructive one, it seems OCZ was sold (to Toshiba) and the website reorganized and a lot of the stuff that was previously available is now gone.

Oh well...

cgallery wrote:... it seems OCZ was sold (to Toshiba) and the website reorganized and a lot of the stuff that was previously available is now gone.

Try the Wayback Machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ocz.com/