Alan Cox <alan(a)lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
What really matters is whether the drive itself thinks on its smart
test
whether it is likely to be failing not some joke heuristic.
And even then, if the 5-year old Google numbers are still valid, you have
a 1/3 chance of being surprised.
"The Google team found that 36% of the failed drives did not exhibit
a single SMART-monitored failure. They concluded that SMART data is
almost useless for predicting the failure of a single drive."
ref:
http://storagemojo.com/2007/02/19/googles-disk-failure-experience/
-wolfgang
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