Subj : Re: Is there a test suite for Pi2/armv7 ?
To   : The Natural Philosopher
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Wed Jul 24 2024 00:33:18

On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 09:29:51 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 21/07/2024 09:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:35:01 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/07/2024 02:30, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:31:11 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 16/07/2024 01:57, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> SMART isn’t much use, anyway. I test my storage devices for actual
>>>>>> I/O errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's what you use SMART *for*.
>>>>
>>>> No, I test doing actual I/O.
>>>
>>> So does SMART.
>>
>> No, it extrapolates from its internal firmware behaviour. It tries to
>> predict failures before they happen.
>
> No it doesn't. It predicts ...

s/predicts/tries to predict/. It’s not a prophet, you know.

And it only catches about 30% of failures.

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