Seagate Drive Date Code 06247

[lacywest]

Seagate Drive Date Code 06247

Okay ... Western Digital show the date in easy to read words ... Maxtor does too.

... but Seagate doesn't ... anybody know how to read the code ??

Date code says ... 06247 .... so when was it built ??

[Number Six]

12-16-2005

[bendixG15]

Here's what GOOGLE says.....

Date Code Shape: YYWD or YYWWD
YY: fiscal year, beginning on the 1st Saturday of July YY-1
W[1-9] or WW[10-52]: fiscal weeks from 1st Saturday of July YY-1
D: days from the beginning of week WW (weeks run from Saturday to Friday)

Happy figurung ....

[redwudz]

I come up with Saturday, December 23, 2006. A neat calculator for this. http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html

Year 2006
24weeks= 168 days+7days= 175 days from Saturday,July 1, 2006= 12/23/2006

Unless I made a mistake.

[Number Six]

YY-1 = 06-1 = 05 = year 2005 ( YY = 00 = 1999 )

See this Document:
http://www.lerti.fr/web/public/NoteTechnique03-v1.01.pdf

[redwudz]

I wondered what that -1 was for.

Then December 24, 2005? If so, I was only a year and a day off.

[Number Six]

If the code was 06377 - then the year would be into 2006...it is confusing

Now if someone can tell me how to read the code on Twinkies and Snickers...

[lacywest]

Thanks guys ... I have two 120 gig Seagates and they are working very nicely ... I like renaming my hard drives with date.

That way when they begin to fail ... I will know how long they lasted.

For example ...
WD_80GB_12-05-06 ......... Western Digital
SG_120GB_11-23-07 ......... Seagate
MT_500GB_07-11-08 ......... Maxtor

I built a PC for a friend ... not a friend anymore he owes me $160 for a Dell Inspiron 2200 and never paid me the rest ... he is 86 from my life now.

But I put three hard drives in it and used my date code ... what did he do ?

He renamed all of them ... Chivas ... no date code ... nothing ... just Chivas.

He was calling a few months ago ... but he is one of those persons who leaves a message ... Gary ... call me !! ... this is Marcos.

Yeah Right ... whenever he calls ... he wants something ... wouldn't be surprised ... one of the harddrives is failing and he dont know what to do ... oh well ... should have paid me my money.