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On Mittwoch, 18. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: |
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> It really depends. The Google study (one of the links above) says, |
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> that SMART very often does not warn you about an impending failure. |
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> So, even though SMART reports that everything is fine, it may very |
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> well not be fine at all. Classic case of false negative. |
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but when smart starts to warn, it is a good sign, that the disk is on its way |
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to harddisk-hell.... |
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There is no way to predict all kinds of failure - and covering at least some |
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of them is better than nothing. |
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