S.M.A.R.T. Harddrive monitoring.

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

I've had it disabled in my bios with every computer I've had for many many years now, because a long long time ago it put more load on the disk and tended to kill hd's faster.

What's the current status? I assume that's been fixed decades ago? Just asking to see if a bigger nerd than myself will scream "noo, keep it off"

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

I'd never heard that it put more load on disks and killed them faster. Is there a source where I can read up on this? (genuinely curious, I've never bothered to turn it off on my disks and have found it useful)

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

this was a real problem, but a looong time ago, and I suspect it was with a specific brand of harddrive OR a bug in a bios.

I can remember turning it off because a ton of people warned me against using it. I'm assuming it was because of a bug in some hardware, but I can't remember, and that's why I'm asking

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

Maybe try asking in the USENET groups relating to storage...

alt.linux.storage.moderated (never mind, dead group)
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (43,000 msgs in the past 2 years... looks active)

(Which reminds me... I need to subscribe to c.s.i.p.h.storage again.)

tgh · Apprentice Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 222

On 2nd thought... now I remember why I stopped subscribing to that newsgroup. (There are 2 or 3 trolls there who basically take a dump on anyone who posts.)

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

think I'm just gonna turn it on, I'm fairly sure it was a bug in a specific piece of hardware, and I'm seriously doubting it's still an issue :p

Cintra · Advocate Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 2111 Location: Norway

I've had it on for yonks..
Mvh
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