On 5 August 2010 15:58, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:26:58 +0100, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 04/08/10 12:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> > I looked at the SMART data, and the only warning entry was that >> > overheating "has occurred in the past," which they say is a sign of >> > "old-age." The computer is only just over a year old, i.e., just out >> > of guarantee. So not much to be done about that, but thanks. Rowan. >> > >> Luckily hard drives aren't too expensive. Chances are since it's only >> about a year old it'll have a SATA hard drive in there. You can get >> 2.5" SATA hard drives reasonably cheap, I got a 320GB one for about >> £40 a couple of months ago, I believe they're a bit cheaper now >> depending what size you want. Rob >> > Um, well, overall SMART says it's OK. >[snip]
Google published a report about 12-18 months ago analyzing the thousands of hard drives in (at least) one of their datacentres. They found that a large proportion of drives that SMART claimed were in imminent danger kept running for months, whereas almost 50% of drives that failed showed no SMART problems beforehand. So I would only treat SMART as a guideline rather than a clean bill of health. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
