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Originally posted by Dragonlich
my SMART harddrive keeps telling me it's going to die soon. It has been saying that for the past two years...
so it's not all perfect. 
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Yeah, SMART doesn't seem to be that reliable. I've seen cases where it would alert on an impending problem and nothing ever happened, and I've seen a case where it alerted about 3 minutes before the drive died.
It does cause the machine to poll the drive, so it can impact performance.