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any familiar with ActiveSMART?
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 1:07 pm
by sarbin
http://www.ariolic.com/
disk health monitoring tool. anyone use it? is it worth considering a trial and then purchase? or an outright purchase?
tia.
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:08 am
by sarbin
anyone even use a utility similar to this? something that can read the hdd smart values?
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:27 am
by vital-analitix
sarbin wrote:anyone even use a utility similar to this? something that can read the hdd smart values?
Every now and then I install HD Health.exe (free utility)
http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=349306
Read a report by Google on HDD failures and they reckoned that failure was not predictable. I don't put too much value on it - when the drive starts to make more noise then I just replace it. Highest failure rate is either at the start of the life or after 3 years.
Average life seemed to peak at approx 18 months (as far as I can recall from memory).
There is some vague memory about that drives seem to fail more often when cold versus when being on the warm / hot side. This was suprising the researchers.....
Hope this helps
Marinus
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:25 am
by sarbin
thanks. i'll have a look at it.