On 03/10/2016 01:23 PM, compdoc wrote: >>> You don't have to guess about failing hard drives. You only have to >>> read the SMART info from each of your drives. That will tell you. >> >> That is not entirely true. "Desktop" drives will spend a lot of time > trying to relocate data from failing sectors before they consider themselves > failing. > > > It is completely true.
BS. I've thrown out dozens of dead drives whose SMART report and self-tests were "healthy as an ox". I repeat, if you have a low-end "desktop" drive, "only reading SMART info" is not enough: they come with a well-known failure mode that produces false negative on the SMART test. On my planet anyway. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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