From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 65AAB1382C5 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:03:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DAA3E08A5; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ed1-f68.google.com (mail-ed1-f68.google.com [209.85.208.68]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 100F5E0886 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ed1-f68.google.com with SMTP id b15so2534156edy.7 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:03:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=it2WFlHePmIBK6zS5/xToBqMDB5WJLr9/GoQHd75FdE=; b=XGA11RN0QJDNKg2pY/l3vqMjbJOyhCHBZywLrxGRQUHmglT0ZzaB2QWFiMA6ubJv2e 7C679rqUFG/psUNaSlXxvCx/13YPHcuLeGY0S5j/Ddq2o5kY7dJgXWSTUor743EEvT3Z r9IGmwx9Cvs6f98hKAyZD1CcRYpR54s7fvAautatoKNURgSjzlWi/hg8hbCsfvAR/DYH 5ZNYrQ2ncPn8ML2Hrv5otCkDtX27SUFkHZgIiNS/IUQT1VPiTHh9P7+HewQzNiL+wlp5 SjdOMoBA4TQbyS8z5iIHFzGbOjxowlvuPjW92+9nSlw/0tMFnIK8t5SbnggY3W+F0AxR vUpA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531LwEC3VSy4MKzIsGtPDES0jGYsk2c+ZTPrTRiF5hFGbN1zeA9o HVi/IXiZy9EC1UYlz0uvXdtO76iGONhRUKOBuYFOuCqi X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJysTlYWPlkqDQLk55UybcA/ba5GjGlcVJGgnynontAPJ0ClLctep2oXFUqOHbHlF34HF6bmWYzgXvXxXwqDlpw= X-Received: by 2002:a50:d983:: with SMTP id w3mr3315505edj.110.1592942628362; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:03:48 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6d77acb3-5754-06cb-b8ef-2f1a5d7d8084@gmail.com> <20200615231836.xje3kkkihsxrvhaz@grusum.endjinn.de> <158351d5-27cc-88d0-951c-893d0b5ad8aa@gmail.com> <1be400f1-9f5f-4e4a-ba8d-0fb7f8609a14@www.fastmail.com> <51f37de0-c955-c114-56bd-672a9e064e24@gmail.com> <27641ea5-ecc3-4e7c-a799-139680335d6b@www.fastmail.com> <83481e30-392b-a105-85c0-8c9d75ed0c61@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <83481e30-392b-a105-85c0-8c9d75ed0c61@gmail.com> From: Rich Freeman Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:03:36 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 0b9ad364-ab91-4ea8-bfda-c6b7edce1c54 X-Archives-Hash: 337dc0f9c043d85bc875162343fe1db2 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 po= sitives isn't a good solution either. By all means, if one wants to just w= ing it and hope for the best, disable SMART and take the risk. At some poi= nt, a drive will fail and without SMART, likely with no warning at all, not= even a false one. ;-) > Agree in general, but your best practice is to be in a position where you don't care if a drive fails without warning. Of course, warning might be nice so that you can go ahead and start replacing it or ordering spares. --=20 Rich