Subj : Re: Is there a test suite for Pi2/armv7 ?
To   : druck
From : Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date : Thu Jul 25 2024 00:45:40

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:35:02 +0100, druck wrote:

> On 24/07/2024 01:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> Companies whose business it is to ensure data integrity do not rely on
>> SMART.
>
> No, they use hardware RAID for redundancy, extensive performance
> monitoring, and retire most disks before they fail based on the small
> percentage of failures of thousands of other discs of the same type.

Actually, no. They wait until the disks actually fail before replacing
them.

> But that's not what the typical person with a Raspberry Pi and a couple
> of discs is able to do. The SMART information gives valuable warning of
> potential failures, to ignore it would be to employ the STUPID feature
> of the user.

Unfortunately, SMART only catches about 30% of potential failures. That’s
why relying on it is not smart.

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