S.M.A.R.T. ... is it?

Wed Nov 5 19:22:09 UTC 2003

> Has anyone ever seen, or heard, of smart actually predicting a failure or is
> it just useless noise in my logfiles?

In theory SMART will tell you about problems some time before they happen.
Most modern ide drives hide all errors from users (such as bad sectors).
The SMART is supposed to be a way around this and let you know when errors
do happen in despite of the HDD firmware hiding them.

Peter
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