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Are those S.M.A.R.T. errors indicate some serious HDD health issues and should I suspect that those S.M.A.R.T. data are tampered?

I've just bought some used hard drive. Using smartctl tool, I found that the Device Error Count value is 16566. Displayed number of reallocated sectors is zero, but should I worry that someone ...
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Was my HDD with failed SMART really repaired?

In brief: I want to know if an HDD with failed SMART can be repaired by any means, and if so, is it still reliable enough. In details: I have a 4 years old 1TB Western Digital HDD (WD10JPVX-08JC3T6) ...
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