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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