On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:56:23 -0700 Larry Brigman <[email protected]> wrote:
> The raw value is just a count of the times things needed to be > recovered. It is of not processed. > The more you use a drive the larger these numbers will get as there > are always recoverable errors. > > On each of the Attributes if it is Pre-fail and the Value item gets to > the thresh (it's count down) then > the drive is a smart failure. If it get to this value in the warranty > period then you can get it replaced. Ah, I had either missed or forgotten that the values were count DOWN. Thank you for that tidbit! That really sets my mind at ease about my drive. (It's a nice drive, btw. Lots of storage space, physically thin -- it fits in my shirt pocket -- and powered directly from the USB.) > Smart is designed to provide predicative failure such that you can > still recover your data before > it totally fails. It mostly works for things that degrade like > head/disk interfaces. It doesn't do anything > for catastrophic failures that don't show degrading trends in > performance or that drop to the floor. > Oh, that part I knew. No way is the program going to detect that someone dropped a drive from six feet to a concrete floor before installing it. :-) Or plugged the power cable in upside down. (Think it couldn't be done? Think again. Some folks are _very_ stubborn.) --Dale -- Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
