On Tue, February 23, 2010 5:43 pm, Benjamin Scott wrote: > While I run smartd in monitor mode, I've never had it give me a > useful pre-failure alert. Likewise, I've never had the SMART health check > in PC BIOSes give me a useful pre-failure alert. More than once I've seen > SMART report the overall health check as "PASS" when the > whole damn disk is unreadable. It make me wonder just what the overall > SMART health is supposed to indicate -- "Yes, the HDD is > physically present"? :)
Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several times. Mind you -- not nearly as often as I've had disks die w/o being proactively informed, but I'd probably put the ratio as high as 25%+. I guess "YMMV" is more than just a catchphrase, after all... -Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
