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Re: Help finding a hardware problem (I think)
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Siddall <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:27:19 -0400
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On 04/23/2013 07:20 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> disk utility show ... SMART [is] fine.
>> >
> SMART "health report" is useless. I had dead disks report "SMART OK" and perfectly functional disks report "SMART Failure, replace your disk now".

Agreed.  SMART doesn't diagnose everything.

On the flaky drive I recently replaced smart extended offline tests all 
passed as did the smart health assessment check.  Nothing else wrong 
either (no pending/offline uncorrectable or CRC errors).  But it surely 
was not working well.

Jeff

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