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