True, a hard drive can fail without throwing a SMART error, but a drive that's SMART erroring goes straight in the bin as far as I'm concerned.I have always found the Ubuntu disc utility to be reliable, and checks ot fairly well with a seagate tool I have too. Any other experiences?Well, it's as good as SMART is, which is vague at best. The price of drives these days (current problems in Thailand aside) is tiny compared to the grief that a failed drive causes... especially when they aren't being backed up... Which reminds me that I recently found an old receipt for a drive I bought in 1997. It cost £160 (which was worth a lot more 14 yrs ago) and gave me an enormous (at the time) 2.5G. Yes, two and a half gigabytes... approx a third of what's currently in my phone... LOL... A couple of months ago I bought a 2TB drive for £55... I make that 800 times the storage for about a quarter of the cost... that's progress... :) Lee |
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