From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:35:02 +0100, druck wrote:   
      
   > On 24/07/2024 01:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> Companies whose business it is to ensure data integrity do not rely on   
   >> SMART.   
   >   
   > No, they use hardware RAID for redundancy, extensive performance   
   > monitoring, and retire most disks before they fail based on the small   
   > percentage of failures of thousands of other discs of the same type.   
      
   Actually, no. They wait until the disks actually fail before replacing   
   them.   
      
   > But that's not what the typical person with a Raspberry Pi and a couple   
   > of discs is able to do. The SMART information gives valuable warning of   
   > potential failures, to ignore it would be to employ the STUPID feature   
   > of the user.   
      
   Unfortunately, SMART only catches about 30% of potential failures. That’s   
   why relying on it is not smart.   
      
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