Billie Walsh wrote:
On 11/07/2007 Aaron Kulkis wrote:
On the basis that SMART was wrong *once*, are you willing
to bet YOUR DATA that his old drive has NOT run out of
internal spare sectors?
I don't think that I EVER suggested that he should just ignore it. I
just suggested that there was a possibility that SMART could be wrong.
It has been several times in my own experience.
I don't think I EVER suggested that he shouldn't test his drive before
making any decision. I don't have super important data to lose but I
sure would test a drive BEFORE I just discarded it. Obviously I'm not as
rich as most folks.
In my ORIGINAL mail I said that SMART said that I had a drive that was
failing. There was nothing wrong with the drive so I turned off SMART
and used the drive for another couple years.
In other words I tested the drive. It was fine. SMART was wrong. I
turned off SMART.
SMART CAN be wrong. Maybe not often. Maybe not every time. But it CAN be
wrong.
I'll quote from your original reply:
Billie Walsh wrote:
< On 11/07/2007 James Knott wrote:
<< < One thing to bear in mind, is that drives have spare sectors,
which get
< < used as others fail. The warning is to tell you that the drive is well
<< < on it's way to failing and should be replaced ASAP. You were
lucky that
<< > it didn't fail sooner. What you did, is comparable to
disabling the
<< < engine light on a car, rather than fixing what's causing it to
turn on.
<
< There was nothing wrong with the drive. There was something in SMART
< that was wrong. I've seen SMART say that a brand new drive is failing.
< SMART is nothing like the engine light on a car.
Doesn't sound like you're told him that SMART *MIGHT* be
giving a bogus report... you told him in no uncertain terms
that without a doubt, his drive is 100% good, and that
SMART is 100% wrong.
SO, JUST GET OFF MY ASS!
When you stop being a jerk, I gladly will.
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