Monitor disks with the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools

Monitor disks with the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools

Posted Mar 20, 2008 5:01 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: Monitor disks with the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools by giraffedata
Parent article: Monitor disks with the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring tools

Either the Google paper or another that came out around the same time concluded that the best policy was to wait for a drive to fail, then replace it.

...for some definition of "fail." Keep in mind that performance drops, sometimes significantly, before unrecoverable data loss occurs.

Greg

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