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I bought "new" drive (never using drives from backup warehouse), but after perform some smartctl tests i discover something odd.

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 2 Vendor (0xb0) Completed without error 00% 21214 -
# 3 Vendor (0x71) Completed without error 00% 21214 -

Number 3 appeared after short self-test. What is the meaning of this different number of LifeTime(hours)?

Complete logs below:

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
 was never started.
 Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
 without error or no self-test has ever 
 been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: ( 24) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
 Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
 Suspend Offline collection upon new
 command.
 Offline surface scan supported.
 Self-test supported.
 No Conveyance Self-test supported.
 Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
 power-saving mode.
 Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
 General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
 SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
 SCT Feature Control supported.
 SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0
 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 054 Pre-fail Offline - 0
 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 0
 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0
 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0
 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 020 Pre-fail Offline - 0
 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 146 146 000 Old_age Always - 41 (Min/Max 21/44)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 2 Vendor (0xb0) Completed without error 00% 17458 -
# 3 Vendor (0x71) Completed without error 00% 17458 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
 1 0 0 Not_testing
 2 0 0 Not_testing
 3 0 0 Not_testing
 4 0 0 Not_testing
 5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
 After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Sounds like old drives that had their SMART values reset to zero.

Some Windows programs do not show the selftest log and even in Linux some people only ever look at -H or -A (if at all) so they would miss it.

Either way, these drives are far from new. They might even be defective, or have reallocated sectors even though it's reset to zero.

Don't trust such drives with important data.