[Discuss] Is this bad?

[John Abreau]

> I find smart isn't very useful.  I've had systems giving hard drive failure
> predictions for years and never have a problem.  And drives that fail
> without warning.  And of course, some drives that predict failure before
> they fail (like it's supposed to do.)  Unfortunately, since the probability
> of each of these three possibilities has been (in my experience)
> approximately equal...  it means I'm getting no value from it.


If smartd doesn't do a good enough job, is there a better alternative
for automated monitoring of disk health on a Linux server or desktop?



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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix
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