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Install SmartReporter. It will give SMART diagnostics which can indicate if (and how quickly) your disk is trending towards mechanical failure.
by minsight 17y ago
Install SmartReporter. It will give SMART diagnostics which can indicate if (and how quickly) your disk is trending towards mechanical failure.
- amichail 17y agoDoes the SMART status indicate a problem only temporarily when that problem happens? Even though I have heard beeps, SMART doesn't indicate any problem now. Is it possible to get beeping without SMART indicating a problem? Is there a SMART status log?
- minsight 17y agoThere is a SMART log. Let the thing run and any SMART warnings will go there. It's possible for a disk to fail and not give SMART errors, but running SMARTreporter gives you more information about the state of a disk and whether it's behaving in a less-reliable manner. It's possible for a disk to read data and report it accurately, but require retries to compensate for failing hardware. SMART will report this sort of thing, when normal disk use will make it seem that the disk is still behaving as well as it was before.