SMART

[crazychicken]

i know SMART is something to do with hdds, but what exactly is it? does it help/hurt me if i have it enabled?

thanks
david

 

[medic]

S.M.A.R.T.
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System.
By using S.M.A.R.T. technology, virtually any intelligent component or device within a computer can communicate its predicted reliability status to its user and system administrator to provide comprehensive protection that can prevent system downtime, productivity loss, and even the loss of valuable data.

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[bacillus]

<< does it help/hurt me if i have it enabled? >>


it would be in your interest to have it enabled to give you notice of impending hdd failure!

 

[CPORonin]

I have only ever seen it work on high end IDE and SCSI drives. Most IDE drives don't support it in my experience. Here are some links:

http://yourpc.net/Drive/smart.html

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,408931,00.html

http://www.quantum.com/src/whitepapers/wp_smart_toc.htm

 

[jpprod]

My old 6.5GB Seagate ST36531A drive supported S.M.A.R.T. v2.0 and it was no high-end IDE drive, even at it's time

 

[Gunbuster]

It has only ever told me bigfoot HDD's are bad, but thats not a hard deduction

 

[esung]

actually, most HDs now supporting S.M.A.R.T. and I've seen it telling you that the HD might fail couple times.. Although it'll not report all the error or prevent all the crashes.