On Dec 25, 2007 6:59 PM, erik quanstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >(we have a drive > in the lab that smart declares will fail any minute now. it's been > this way for 2 years.)
>From everything I've seen, SMART has zero correlation with real hardware issues -- confirmed by a discussion with someone at a big search company. SMART is dumb. > this can be a big problem if you have a > machine with raid that won't boot due to a drive failure. > (why have a raid if one failure means an unbootable machine?) it makes great ad copy. ron
