[LUNI] Re: Testing IDE drives

[David Gibbs]

Martin Maney wrote:
> Unfortunately, the bottom line is that they found that over half of all
> failures had no visible indication in the SMART data; still, the flip
> side is that about half the time there may be clues.

I've had the same feelings about SMART for quite a while ... I've
*NEVER* had SMART predict a true drive failure ... and, when SMART does
report a impending failure, normal diagnostics (even the manufacturers)
report no problems.

david