On 04/23/2013 07:20 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
disk utility show ... SMART [is] fine.
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SMART "health report" is useless. I had dead disks report "SMART OK" and perfectly
functional disks report "SMART Failure, replace your disk now".
Agreed. SMART doesn't diagnose everything.
On the flaky drive I recently replaced smart extended offline tests all
passed as did the smart health assessment check. Nothing else wrong
either (no pending/offline uncorrectable or CRC errors). But it surely
was not working well.
Jeff
