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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:45:06
Message-Id: ACB68861-1DE7-4D7A-971D-72F9469F56EC@antarean.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link) by James
1 On 13 November 2014 19:35:57 CET, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin <at> googlemail.com> writes:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Am 13.11.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Adam Carter:
6 >
7 >> "Backblaze's analysis of nearly 40,000 drives
8 >
9 >Always suspect a vendor's purpose for fingering others. It
10 >may be valid, but often tainted.
11 >Were SSD and other storage devices included? Where operating
12 >systems were the drives used on? A myriad of parameters
13 >might be insightful....ymmv.
14 >
15 >
16 >> SMART 5 - Reallocated_Sector_Count.
17 >> SMART 187 - Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors.
18 >> SMART 188 - Command_Timeout.
19 >> SMART 197 - Current_Pending_Sector_Count.
20 >> SMART 198 - Offline_Uncorrectable"
21 >
22 >>
23 >http://www.computerworld.com/article/2846009/the-5-smart-stats-that-actually-predict-hard-drive-failure.html
24 >
25 >> everybody with half a brain would figure that one out themselves.
26 >
27 >
28 >Volker is onto something here. Another consideration is which of these
29 >(maybe all 5?) can be tracked or have a module developed and included
30 >into your favorite NMS, like nagios or jffnms. Collect up the data
31 >trend it yourself and auto_generate graphs and or reports. So what
32 >is really important is which ones can be included via snmp or whatever
33 >protocol into your favorite NMS?
34 >
35 >Something that relies of something from this vendor, that is not
36 >opensource, is worthless noise, imho.
37 >
38 >
39 >hth,
40 >James
41
42 James,
43
44 Backblaze is not selling harddrives. They sell storage on their servers.
45
46 The data they collect is based on different drives from different manufacturers.
47
48 They are quite open on what they use, check out their website and blogposts. You should find the answers to your questions easily there.
49
50 --
51 Joost
52 --
53 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.