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The names of disk drive SMART attributes are kind of made up (sadly)
- tuatoru 4y agoEven with all the inconsistency, we're better off than we were before SMART. Although you could go by manufacturer reputation to some degree, back in the day. A few days ago I fired up an IBM 2.1 GB IDE drive that was manufactured in December '98, according to its label. It's been sitting in a drawer for about 15 years. Still working well, as far as I can tell.
- londons_explore 4y agoYou need a way for vendors to put their own custom data here. If you don't, then vendors will invent some other weird extension 'just write this magic sequence of bytes anywhere in the drive, and when you read it back it will have changed into the drive statistics encoded as JSON!'.
- ElijahLynn 4y agoI always contend that most of our technology and most of the web is still in the "Get it working" stage of Kent Beck's infamous "Get it working, get it right, get it fast" methodology. In the "Get it working" stage, any name will do, if the goal is to get it to work. Then, due to constraints somehow it gets shipped in that stage, because afterall, it does work. Working technology is more valuable than non-working technology. So many things have this "#NamingDebt" too. Naming Debt is one of the hardest types of debt to fix. One way that I have found to prevent naming debt while working towards the "Get it working" stage is to pick ridiculous names, absurd names. It isn't always possible because to work towards things, you want things to make sense in your own brain. But sometimes it can work.