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 9A0761382C5 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8829EE08A5; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.io (ciao.gmane.io [159.69.161.202]) (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 28B52E0885 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jnlw3-000DZX-8c for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 23 Jun 2020 18:38:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good. Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 16:38:06 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <6d77acb3-5754-06cb-b8ef-2f1a5d7d8084@gmail.com> <20200615231836.xje3kkkihsxrvhaz@grusum.endjinn.de> <158351d5-27cc-88d0-951c-893d0b5ad8aa@gmail.com> User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 6ecf89d0-b336-4d74-9282-cc519cf5100c X-Archives-Hash: 6d0ac2cfa036a360a6dbf64f0bab165e On 2020-06-23, Sid Spry wrote: > Thanks for these. I do have a general question: has SMART actually shown > anyone predictive capability? Sort of. It noticed the initial failures and e-mailed me a warning long before I would have otherwised noticed. I lost a couple files, but without SMART I probably wouldn't have noticed any failures for a long time (probably not until something fairly catastrophic happened). > In my use and in the use of 4-5 people I know it only makes you > aware of errors after the drive is failing but still online. Which is better than not knowing until the drive is failed and offline. :) -- Grant