disk monitoring

[Egor Egorov]

On 1 may 2007, at 03:23, Eric Lambrecht wrote:

>
> A cursory look on the web makes me think 'smartmontools.sf.net'  
> might work pretty well, as I think all our machines ultimately use  
> SATA drives.


The Google team found that 36% of the failed drives did not exhibit a  
single SMART-monitored failure. They concluded that SMART data is  
almost useless for predicting the failure of a single drive.

http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf

Very interesting paper.

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     Egor Egorov
     http://www.fine.kiev.ua/