On 23/06/20 19:32, Sid Spry wrote:
> The danger of SMART is that rate of false negatives is so high (IME) that
> you might erroneously think a drive is not going to fail and putting off a
> backup. A good backup policy should mitigate this, but you still might plan
> around drive lifetime SMART pre
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dale wrote:
>
> I'm sure there is many false positives out there but ignoring the real
> positives isn't a good solution either. By all means, if one wants to just
> wing it and hope for the best, disable SMART and take the risk. At some
> point, a drive will f
Sid Spry wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 12:26 PM, Dale wrote:
>> SMART can't predict the future so it can only monitor for the things
>> it can see. If say a spindle bearing is about to lock up suddenly,
>> SMART most likely can't detect that since it is a hardware failure that
>> can't re
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 12:26 PM, Dale wrote:
> SMART can't predict the future so it can only monitor for the things
> it can see. If say a spindle bearing is about to lock up suddenly,
> SMART most likely can't detect that since it is a hardware failure that
> can't really be predicted. We
Sid Spry wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Which is better than not knowing until the drive is failed and
>> offline. :)
>>
> But redundant if the drive degration is obvious. In two cases I
> can think of drives only reported SMART will-fail after the drives
> had
On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> Which is better than not knowing until the drive is failed and
> offline. :)
>
But redundant if the drive degration is obvious. In two cases I
can think of drives only reported SMART will-fail after the drives
had hard failed. In the ot
On 2020-06-23, Sid Spry 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 p
On 2020-06-15, Grant Edwards wrote:
> backblocks was designed to do what you want.
...
> babblocks would be a good start.
Geez, I can't even mistype "badblocks" consistently...
--
Grant
On 2020-06-15, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I finally bought a 8TB drive. It is used but they claim only a
> short duration. Still, I want to test it to be sure it is in grade
> A shape before putting a lot of data on it and depending on it. I
> am familiar with some tools already. I know about SM
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