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The Saturday 2007-06-02 at 05:13 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
> I understand Google did a paper on disk drives. They found that SMART was not
> a
> very good predictor in determining drive health. I think it was a three year
> study on their drive failures at Google.
I know, I read it.
It doesn't predict all failures, but it does signal some of them, and can
do some diagnostics, including a surface test.
If the usb boxes' chipsets do not even support smart, testing the drives
becomes more difficult.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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