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Old 05-12-2010, 05:41 PM   #1
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LXer: Introduction to SMART

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Did you know your drive was SMART? Actually: Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology. It can be used to gather information about your hard drives and offers some additional information about the status of your storage devices. It can also be used with other tools to help predict drive failure.

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Old 05-13-2010, 02:42 PM   #2
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That is some interesting info, I thought SMART would be more able to predict failure than that. Well, if you buy a good drive it might help.
 
  


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