False SMART data given on hard drives

[Jeb E.]

With any hard disk that I plug in via SATA on my PC that supports SMART technology, the Gnome Disk Utility, no matter how many runing hours the disk has had, will tell me that every single attribute has a "Pre-Fail" or "Old-Age" type, which I know is completely untrue especially because of the fact that I have tried this over and over again on multiple PCs and multiple Hard Disks.

Maybe the Disk Utility just isn't calibrated correctly for modern disks?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-33.58-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-33-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Aug 12 08:52:07 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-12 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Nathaniel Wilson (dubrict)]

Affects me as well. Even on a brand new disk with less than 1 hour of runtime, it says "old age"