On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote: > > Huh -- I actually *have* had SMART tell me things were awry, several > > times. > > Well, that's good to know. :) > > Just curious, did you get a chance to see if any of them actually > started failing soon after? > > Like I said, I did have one case where SMART said something was > wrong, but nobody could figure out why it was saying that, and they > only did an exchange because I insisted. And, of course, since it was > a service contract, I couldn't keep the old part to see if/when it > would actually start showing other symptoms. > > Google released a study of hard drive failures (last year?). Another organization (CERN?) release one at about the same time. It said SMART is 50/50 and not all that reliable as a defect predictor. They found little difference between enterprise and consumer grade lifetimes. Once drives have errors, they multiply quickly. It is definitely worth digging up.
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