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Should I use S.M.A.R.T.?

yes, assuming your hard drive supports it. SMART = Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology to monitor the health status of Hard Disk Drives, monitors the drive temperature, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fails, using special algorithms.
 
I have a special edition western digital 80 gig HD. I will look and see if it supports. I could see slowing down for safety sake.
 
WD said all their drives are s.m.a.r.t. capable. I am now using this and it seems to work greaat.
Thanks for help.
 
On overclocking I consistently found a small but steady advantage to disabling SMART. Only in 3dmark2001 though.

I thought SMART was software controlled so tried disabling it (I used to enable it always before I overclocked, figured why not).

I probably am the dumb one for disabling it but never saw the good in what it did. Has any one else?

I would go with pspada's recommending SMART enabled, he always knows what he is talking about.
 
S.M.A.R.T. saved my ass a few times, so I keep it on. It halts the BIOS and tells you that your drive is dying and tells u to backup stuff. Works most of the time... unless you get the click of Death and it just doesn't detect the drive... damn Maxtor drives... Western Digital from now on 🙂
 
Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
SMART is slower, but safer.

disable it if you want speed
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Sorry, no. If you enable "SMART" in BIOS, it'll just make BIOS query the drive health ONCE, during POST. Afterwards, the performance hit is zero. Nada. Niente.
 
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