Re: Hard drive terminology question

On May 20, 5:46 am, Paul <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



I replace drives when they start to make me nervous. And that
happens after around a year or so on average. Either I start to
see something in the SMART stats, or the HDTune benchmark
is wrong, or I hear a sound at startup that didn't used to be
there. I no longer run them until they fail, mainly because
I don't do backups every day.



Since mean time for failure on a modern drive is five years, seems you
are jumping the gun. And SMART stats--how do you manually monitor
them? I just let the BIOS figure out when some threshold is crossed
and failure is imminent.

RL
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