Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Adam Carter wrote: > > TFA doesn't mention drive vendors. Does "others" in the "fingering others" > statement refer to other SMART metrics? Backblaze published their vendor stats recently. Hitachi drives were the best, followed by WD. Then WAY behind those two w

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Adam Carter
I find the confirmation of the theory, and the actual response of vendor implementations, useful. Using empirical evidence based on a significant sample size achieves that. The alternative is to make the assumption that the theory and the vendor implementation is correct, and I only do this when i

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: > > "Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives showed five SMART metrics that > correlate strongly with impending disk drive failure: > > SMART 5 - Reallocated_Sector_Count. > SMART 187 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter: > "Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives showed five SMART > metrics that correlate strongly with impending disk drive failure: > > * SMART 5 - Reallocated_Sector_Count. > * SMART 187 - Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors. > * SMART 188 - Command_T

[gentoo-user] Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-12 Thread Adam Carter
"Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives showed five SMART metrics that correlate strongly with impending disk drive failure: - SMART 5 - Reallocated_Sector_Count. - SMART 187 - Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors. - SMART 188 - Command_Timeout. - SMART 197 - Current_Pending_Sector_Coun