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S.M.A.R.T. - What's the deal?
What are the advantages/disadvantages to enabling this option on drives.
I am currently running a six hard drive setup on an Athlon XP system. Mainly concerned how this will help/hinder performance. |
Makes your hard drive smarter :p
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It does hinder performance. but if you are worried about a drive going bad, it is supposed to give you advanded warning so you can backup your data.
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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. :) |
My SMART told me that my hd was about to die last month so I downloaded Active SMART to see what was wrong and it turned out that my error read rate was all out of whack, but a couple of days later, it went back to normal and I haven't gotten that warning since o_O
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It does cause the machine to poll the drive, so it can impact performance. |
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