Yeah it's just a matter of time. Could be minutes or a couple of weeks. A large percent of drives fail still without any SMART warning at all. So the fact there is a warning should be considered a bonus. No delay, make a backup.
I personally would selectively do a backup of the most important data first. And then if desired do a full disk backup, if you ultimately want a full disk backup. I would not start with the full disk backup because the drive could fail in the middle of it and then you have squat, or at least, probably not the data you really want. I'd also avoid shutting down the system, i.e. if you're thinking of putting in another hard drive onto which you'd drop the backup. Find an external drive, or do the selective backup over a network connection to another computer. The drive could fail abruptly upon either spinning down, or the next spin up. I wouldn't risk it until priority data is backedup. On Jul 24, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Milo Velimirović wrote: > Get ready to replace the drive ASAP. It will only go downhill from here. > > On Jul 24, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Richard Peskin wrote: > >> One of our iMacs (2009 i7) reports a SMART disk error when using either Disk >> Utility or OnyX. Disk Utility reports a SMART status failure. I assume this >> means the SMART firmware on the disk controller has failed. Is there any way >> I can get further information about this failure? All Volumes on the disk >> (partitions) are performing normally. >> thanks, >> --dick peskin > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
