Manufacturers can reset the S.M.A.R.T. values of refurbished/recertified drives.
Can anyone else except the manufacturer reset S.M.A.R.T. values,
e.g. reset spin-up count to zero or reset drive usage hours to zero ?
Could, for example, a HDD retailer reset the S.M.A.R.T. values in order to (re)sell used HDDs as new? (Similarly to the fraud of tempering with the mileage counter of cars.) Do users need to worry about this?
