[ale] New hard drive procedure

[Michael Trausch]

Yeah, it's mostly useful for learning of events. By itself it predicts nothing. Coupled with patterns and experience, it can save you from more downtime than is necessary.

I use it to keep tabs on motor cycle counts, temp history, and media failure history. Once the remapped sector count starts climbing, there isn't much time before they run out and the filesystem starts noticing the bad sectors, and not much longer after that... So earlier warning is better than later warning. :)

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> On Jun 6, 2015, at 9:06 PM, DJ-Pfulio <DJPfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> 
> SMART data is next to worthless. There aren't any standards and the only useful
> way to use it is to monitor over time. Snapshot data point mean ZERO.