RE: Does S.M.A.R.T. actually work?

David,
I've had SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) drives
for years. The only thing they do for you is help in configuration unless
you have software to read them periodically to review the self-test data
they generate. 
At one time I had a system that the BIOS would report the SMART results
periodically while the system was running. It told me about 2 hours before
the drive crashed that the drive was about to crash. Having backed the drive
up the night before, I kept going. It crashed. I tried for about 4 hours to
recover the two hours of work I had lost. I restored to a new drive and kept
going.

For me, it did nothing.
John Brandt
iStudio400.com

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gibbs [mailto:david@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 2:57 PM
To: pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCTECH] Does S.M.A.R.T. actually work?


Does anyone know if S.M.A.R.T. technology in IDE drives actually works?

The hard drive in my laptop just gave up it's ghost.  No warning, no 
errors, all of a sudden it just stopped working.  90% of the time the 
system couldn't even tell it had a drive installed (luckily I was able 
to get my critical data in the 10% it actually worked).

The drive is supposed to be SMART capabile ... and I have a program 
that's supposed to monitor the SMART status, but it didn't give a peep.

Any ideas?

david

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