John Drescher wrote:

> I would say this is true for smart PASS / FAIL but if you look at the
> raw SMART data you can use this to predict failure before it totally
> fails. 

I agree but they don't do that.

> At least I have been able to predict this for the 10 to 20
> drives that have died here at work since 2009. 

I haven't had as many die as you have (Do your users kick their 
computers around the room?) but my experience matches yours when looking 
at changes in the raw data. The problem is I haven't had enough die to 
put 100% certainty on it so I tend to rely on smartd's output.




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