Does S.M.A.R.T. actually work? -- PCTECH

Subject: [PCTECH] Does S.M.A.R.T. actually work?
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:57:23 -0600
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Does anyone know if S.M.A.R.T. technology in IDE drives actually works?

The hard drive in my laptop just gave up it's ghost. No warning, no errors, all of a sudden it just stopped working. 90% of the time the system couldn't even tell it had a drive installed (luckily I was able to get my critical data in the 10% it actually worked).

The drive is supposed to be SMART capabile ... and I have a program that's supposed to monitor the SMART status, but it didn't give a peep.

Any ideas?

david

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