Re: [Trisquel-users] Backup your stuff - NOW!

[mikko . viinamaki]

Google did some research on the smart attributes for predicting disk failure  
on 100,000 disks. They found out that if the smart parameters were indicating  
something's wrong, then the disk was quite likely to fail soon. On the other  
hand, most disks simply failed without any prior warning in the smart  
parameters.

My disk too gave no warning.
http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf