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Old October 31st 17, 03:06 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
philo
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On 10/31/2017 08:41 AM, Mayayana wrote:


" the research showed that a large proportion (56%)
of the failed drives failed without recording any count
in the "four strong S.M.A.R.T. warnings" identified as
scan errors"
"36% of drives failed without recording any S.M.A.R.T.
error at all, except the temperature, meaning that
S.M.A.R.T. data alone was of limited usefulness in
anticipating failures."

I'm still very curious about how the disk could die in
3 years, but statistically that's not unheard of. And
I don't know how it was used. I guess the only thing
I can do is to reinstall and try to minimize unnecessary
background junk when I do the setup. That's the one
aspect that's got me suspicious. When I search for
links about hard disk trouble I seem to find a lot of
complaints from people about ceaseless activity, which
they eventually trace to some unnecessary 3rd-party
applet.





I have seen a drive die in six weeks and I have some drives here in my
junkbox that are 20 years old and still good
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