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Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:36:57 -0700
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> http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf
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> They find a number of SMART parameters that are reasonably indicative of failure, including "Reallocated Sector", "Current Pending Sector", and "Offline Uncorrectable" counts. That said, IIRC, SMART only predicted failures around 30% of the time.
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Yes, and there is a second paper of a little older vintage from one of the big U's (forgot which one) with similar results.

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Konstantin Olchanski
Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
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