On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:00:21AM +0600, Roman Mamedov wrote: > That said, do not fall into a false sense of security relying on proprietary, > barely if ever updated after the device has been shipped, and often very > peculiar-behaving SMART routines inside the black-box HDD firmware as your > most important data safeguard. > > Of course SMART must be checked and monitored, but don't delude yourself into > thinking it will always warn you of anything going wrong well in advance of > failure, or even at all.
The famous paper from Google a few years back suggested that SMART was a useful predictor of failure in something like 20% of failures. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 65E74AC0 from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Python is executable pseudocode; perl --- is executable line-noise.
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