On 20/08/08 16:40, Soren Hansen wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:43:16AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote: > >> If you recall the google research about hard drive failures you will >> have remembered that SMART is no indication of impending failure. >> > > And if you recall the very same research, you will have remembered that > SMART *does* indicate of impending failure. The conclusion of the study > was that if SMART says that he drive is about to go bust, it's very > likely to be true. However, if SMART says everything is fine, that's not > necessarily true. > > And your last sentence is precisely why I raised my point in the first place.
The abstract from the report reads: [..] we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. And that is my point, "individual drive failures", that is, those on a single machine, which is what we were discussing if I'm not mistaken. Now if you want to add SMART statistics to the landscape-sysinfo tool that Gustavo is working on, that's a whole different thing. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06" - E115°50'39" (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss