-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2007-06-02 at 05:13 -0700, Joseph Loo wrote:
I understand Google did a paper on disk drives. They found that SMART was not a very good predictor in determining drive health. I think it was a three year study on their drive failures at Google.
I know, I read it. It doesn't predict all failures, but it does signal some of them, and can do some diagnostics, including a surface test. If the usb boxes' chipsets do not even support smart, testing the drives becomes more difficult. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGYZCftTMYHG2NR9URAk9sAJwOYEEmmRwi3NdSX+Q4ELWI2Dx3uQCeL2ff CPQ4bOnM/mWXnlkIESl9TX4= =D8pd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org