On May 2, 2013, at 2:31 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: > AFAIK, SMART is a lousy diagnostic anyway.
I agree. > It's a "better than nothing" alarm system, but I wouldn't trust it much. I've had drives die that passed SMART right up until the moment they died. I've seen drives with SMART errors that seemingly worked fine. I did retire some drives with many SMART errors on the assumption that many errors would eventually lead to failure, but, I never saw a HD with SMART warning errors actually fail, while I saw several die without any SMART warning errors beforehand. A lousy diagnostic for sure. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
