-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-21 at 12:10 +0100, Joachim Schrod wrote:
Of course, being a statstical measure, it doesn't tell at all which disk will fail next, so it can only be used for purchasing decisions and not for precautionary actions. See also the recent Google report on that topic.
Right. However... an example. The chaps maintaining my car do some kind of "preventive maintenance": they replace some pieces based on time and kilometers. When I check those pieces, they seem ok, but... who knows, I know they will not break on the road. Hopefully. I'm curious. On large installations such as those you and Kai mention, are SMART tests useful to predict failure? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFF3J5itTMYHG2NR9URAj65AKCSIrHqqyQJdBZ9yyQ6MfZBdwcx3QCeMvJL 9NiFH3x3BiPt++kNCdyJhVU= =qKRv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org