On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:53, Matt Morgan wrote: > On 03/24/2004 10:27 PM, Wolfgang Gill wrote: > > >On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 23:49:41 +0530, Kaustubh Ghosh wrote > > .... > Here's what I still wonder: how well does SMART work? If I aggressively > monitor my smartd errors, will I be guaranteed to catch a failing drive > before it dies completely? Or when they die, do they mostly die all at > once, not giving smartd a chance to warn you ahead of time? And are > there any UI elements to smartd, so that you'll be warned when a problem > is logged, without having to go check /var/log/messages, or are you > expected to use whatever other log monitoring tools you've already set up? > You can setup it to warn you via email > I also think it's kind of funny that this is out there now, now that > drives hardly fail anymore. I wish I had this 10 years ago. Although I > still see situations where certain groups of drives are bad (for > example, a bunch we bought for some Macs in our Design department last > year all failed). Pretty neat. > > --Matt -- Robert Marcano
