Messages in this thread |  | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: Hi is this critical?? | Date | Mon, 16 Sep 2002 19:27:49 +0100 (BST) |
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> > If so, why not to use S.M.A.R.T with smartd and smartctl? > > I think you will like them (loock on freshmeat for the link). > > I don't think S.M.A.R.T should be the all mighty god of dying hard drive > detections. Many times I had dying IDE drives that wouldn't show much > difference on S.M.A.R.T tests and would stay in operationnal parameters > until it refuses to spin up or was just covered in bad sectors.
S.M.A.R.T. is useful to prove that a drive is dying, but it is not useful to prove that it is not.
I.E. if you get a S.M.A.R.T. message saying that the drive is dying, then believe it, and back up your data, but don't rely solely on S.M.A.R.T. to detect a dying drive.
In any case, though, check out:
http://csl.cse.ucsc.edu/smart.shtml
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