On 2025-03-06, Max Nikulin <[email protected]> wrote: > > SMART long test (requested when system high load is not expected) is a > tool that may help to reveal issues with a disk earlier and give you > more time to find a replacement and to schedule down time. Certainly a > disk may still fail unexpectedly despite passed tests and good SMART report.
I have no need to schedule down time, is the thing. I'm just a lowly end-user, to use the slightly pejorative term, on an individual machine. If the hard drive fails, I'll replace it. YMMV.
