Shadow wrote:
On Thu, 6 Oct 2016 15:40:51 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote:

"What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-...rive-failures/

"What if a hard drive could tell you it was going to fail before it actually did? Is that possible? Each day Backblaze records the
SMART stats that are reported by the 67,814 hard drives we have spinning in our Sacramento data center. SMART stands for
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology and is a monitoring system included in hard drives that reports on various
attributes of the state of a given drive."

Good article. TY

Smart.
Yes.
How long the drives were in operation would have added more
insight. The 4GB Toshibas are far older than some of the Seagates.
[]'s

My 1 TB Seagate crashed hard (death of clicks) on Saturday at 4:37 AM
PDT when my very old, updated Windows XP Pro SP3 was idling overnight.
I only had it for almost five years! However, my Seagate 320 GB HDD is
still working from 2007!
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