Hi we are trying to make a educated guess about the state of 4 'old' hdd's. On 4 usb ext hdd we've run a selftest with smartctl 7.1.
Here is some outcome but we are not sure where to look for nor how to interpret.
FUJITSU 500 gb
lifetime: 1251 hours (52 days + 3 hours)
Hitachi_320gb
lifetime: 3814 hours (158 days + 22 hours)
TOSHIBA_1 TB
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 6992 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 46
WDC_WD1.5 TB
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 11988 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 859
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Most likely you are good. 52 days and 152 days etc of uptime is not much (but it may have been started up and shutdown quite a bit). but if possible I think connecting directly to a motherboards SATA port is best when running the SMART check as it might be greyed out if you don't, or not give a bit more detailed info.
like for example, Mint comes with 'Disks'. load that up, select the hard drive you want to check on the left hand side of screen then click the 'three dots' (just to the left of the 'minimize') and you will see "SMART Data & Self-Tests..." (if this is greyed out it's likely because you are using the USB connection and not a direct connection to your motherboards SATA port), click this, then on the lower left area of that window you will see "Start Self-Test", click this, and then you will see three choices, Short/Extended/Conveyance. a 'short' test will probably generally be good enough and only takes about 3-5 minutes to finish.
but in that general "SMART Data & Self-Tests" window you can see more info on the general hard drive like 'Start/Stop Count', 'Reallocated Sector Count', Power-On Hours etc.
bottom line... if it says "Overall Assessment: Disk Is Okay" chances are the hard drive is good.
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