disk monitoring

[Eric Lambrecht]

That paper is fascinating!

Honestly, though,  I don't care if SMART predicts the drive failure, I just 
want to know when a drive has actually failed so we can 'dead' it and not 
end up in a situation where two drives are down and we start losing data.

Eric....
...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 1 May 2007 11:11:03 +0300 "Egor Egorov" <egor at fine.kiev.ua> wrote:
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>On 1 may 2007, at 03:23, Eric Lambrecht wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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.
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>http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
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>Very interesting paper.
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>-- 
>     Egor Egorov
>     http://www.fine.kiev.ua/
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