SMART self-test in Ubuntu failed?

Hardware Hub Storage
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So I wanted to see how my HDD from 2013 was doing since I haven't used it for almost a year so I formatted it and installed Ubuntu to it and I decided to run the built in SMART self test on the HDD and it says that it failed the read portion. I asked this question over on LTT and I only got a couple responses, and I kinda wanted some more feedback. I was going to use this drive a little later this year for a Linux boot drive when I build my PC. But seeing this, I'm not sure I want to do that now. Though whatever distro I do keep/put on it isn't going to be my main drive.

Anyways here's the self test and drive info:

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You dont use it much xD

Mines been on for 4 years!

Tried a long self test?

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Yeah I'm not sure why that Power On Hour count is so low, because I'm pretty sure I used it pretty frequently for about a year.

I could swap out the HDDs in this laptop and run the long SMART test instead, since I did only run the short self test when I swapped the HDDs out earlier today to run that self test.

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Older drives can apparently have some unreliable smart reporting.

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Well if it's relevant it does say the DOM was 03/2013. It was used for about a year and then kinda was left off for about a year or so now.