On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:35:49 -0500, "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Shouldn't there have been some indication of problems prior to the > failure? Only if you are lucky. Someone at Google published some information about smart around a year ago. In cases where catastrophic failures occur, for a high percentage there is no warning from smart.