After getting the Mac Mini bought by Goudongguo, I found that there were more than 120 Power Cycles. Did it roll over?
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Feb 11, 2025
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As mentioned in the title, Gou Dongguobu bought a Mac Mini. After using it for a few hours today, I used smartctl to check the status of the hard disk. There were actually more than 120 Power Cycles, and there were 2 Unsafe Shutdowns (the computer has not been shut down normally or abnormally). These two values did not meet expectations. However, Power On Hours is only 4 hours, which is in line with expectations; The amount of data read and write is 100-200G more than the value I saw in Activity Monitor respectively, which is not too outrageous. Then after restarting the computer, Power Cycles only increased by 1, which is also in line with expectations.
After searching on the Internet, someone in the Mac Rumors forum encountered this situation a few years ago, and in the end there was no conclusion whether it was a rollover or not. Has anyone ever encountered this situation? Is it caused by normal pre-factory testing or did you buy a refurbished machine?
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Anonymous1866 Feb 12, 2025Did you take a complete one-shot unpacking video before unpacking? If taken: Go check the video to see if the seal of the package is complete, as long as it is a complete seal, then it will be fine. Those people in Huaqiangbei who play with refurbished packaging are not interested in mac mini for the time being If you didn't shoot: learn a lesson, remember to shoot unboxing videos in the future, don't be a lazy dog
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Poster Feb 12, 2025@ Anonymous1866 didn't take a picture, and the national subsidy had to be unboxed and taken a picture. I was sorry to keep the courier waiting, so I opened it directly. However, the seal should be complete. I checked it before dismantling it, and I was afraid that I would buy an official machine with the money of a new machine.
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Anonymous6953 Feb 13, 2025I just arrived today. I read your post and checked it. In the same situation, could it be a problem with software reading? Power Cycles: 119 Power On Hours: 4 Unsafe Shutdown: 2
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Poster Feb 14, 2025@ Anonymous6953 It's not a software reading problem, I suspect it's either caused by pre-factory testing, or it's an official translation after returning the goods X days later without reason.
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Anonymous6954 Feb 14, 2025I also checked Power Cycles: 130 It's no problem anyway, don't care
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Anonymous6955 Feb 23, 2025Today I bought a mac mini m4 with national subsidy. I just turned it on, but I haven't turned it off. I tested it with smartctl. Power Cycles: 123 Power On Hours: 3 Unsafe Shutdown: 4 It feels worse than yours. But I took a video of unboxing and asked customer service later. There is no trace of unboxing the machine START OF SMART DATA SECTION = = = SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 25 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 751,613 [384 GB] Data Units Written: 410,533 [210 GB] Host Read Commands: 17,687,710 Host Write Commands: 4,959,766 Controller Busy Time: 0 Power Cycles: 123 Power On Hours: 3 Unsafe Shutdown: 4 Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0 Error Information Log Entries: 0 Read 1 entries from Error Information Log failed: GetLogPage failed: system = 0x38, sub = 0x0, code = 745
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Poster Feb 24, 2025What does @ Anonymous6955 customer service say? This situation can hardly be used as a reason for returning the goods.
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Anonymous6956 Mar 29, 2025Power Cycles: 160 Power On Hours: 90
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Anonymous4342 Apr 25, 2025Just arrived with national supplement ``` Power Cycles: 121 Power On Hours: 3 Unsafe Shutdown: 3 ```