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On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 05:09:20PM -0500, Steven Elling wrote: |
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> Interesting. I just had my IBM Deskstar 30Gig fail Tuesday. I was able |
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> to mount the drive read only and get most of the data off it but boy did |
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> does it sound bad. |
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> S.M.A.R.T. won't even work on the drive to tell me what exactly failed. |
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S.M.A.R.T. is just another acronym (those IBM-types LOVE acronyms) |
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of something that sounds great in marketing, but I have yet to hear |
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any real testimony to its value. |
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S.M.A.R.T. technology has been intentionally handicapped from telling |
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the user the tell-tale hardware errors that a harddrive regularly has |
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(that are then corrected in the drive's software) which can definitely |
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be useful in predicting when a harddrive might go bad. |
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So I just leave all my S.M.A.R.T. capable harddrives with the |
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S.M.A.R.T. disabled. |
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Charlton |
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