Re: [9fans] SMART: Silly Marketing Acronym, Rebuts Truth

[tlaronde@polynum.com]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 10:10:39AM -0800, Erik Quanstrom wrote:
>in my experience smart can be helpful diagnosing grey failures. but it's useless to generalize about hdd or ssd firmware wrt smart data.

<rant>I suspect that the huge majority of technical resources is
nowadays put on improving the manufacture process so that 99% of
the devices will last the duration of the guarantee... but not
longer. Since when SMART reports problems, the disk will finally
fail but several days or weeks after, this is the grey part you
are talking about: near the end of the guarantee but not already
pass the guarantee. So SMART can not advertise the failure (because
the device is still under guarantee) but not lie totally (to incit
you to buy another one). The question the marketing
department doesnt ask itself is whether a customer, seeing that the
device fails just after the guarantee is void, will have an incentive to
buy the same brand. Even if "everybody" (all the brands including the
"no brand"---that manufacture in fact for the brands) does the
same, the brand I have not tested yet has the benefit of the
doubt...</rant>

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