Richard Scobie wrote: > Thought this paper may be of interest. A study done by Google on over > 100,000 drives they have/had in service. > > http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf Interesting link. They seem to point out that smart not necessarily warns of pending failure. This is probably worse than not having smart at all, as it gives you the illusion of safety. If there is one thing to watch out for, it is "dew". I remember video machines sensing for dew, so do any drives sense for "dew"? Thanks! -- Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
