[gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-06-23, Sid Spry <sid@××××.us> wrote:

> Thanks for these. I do have a general question: has SMART actually shown
> anyone predictive capability?

Sort of.  It noticed the initial failures and e-mailed me a warning
long before I would have otherwised noticed.  I lost a couple files,
but without SMART I probably wouldn't have noticed any failures for a
long time (probably not until something fairly catastrophic happened).

> In my use and in the use of 4-5 people I know it only makes you
> aware of errors after the drive is failing but still online.

Which is better than not knowing until the drive is failed and
offline. :)

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Grant