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Which is not an impressive or difficult thing, I just hadn't done it (setup software to check on the SMART messages in the drives and do self-checks and such).
It was just a matter of installing a package from my package manager, and the stuff for any OS is out there easily. Probably would have been better had I done this BEFORE my wife's external failed with all her data...
If any of you aren't checking your drives health periodically, you should do so.
Also, optimizing and tuning your SSDs is a good thing.
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Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:06 pm
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Re: So, I can now monitor my HDD and SSD health
I've evolved past the folly of drive geometry.
We're talking about wear-out parts. Like rubber seals, they need to be replaced periodically. Performance is literally addition: add speed until you max your channel. S.M.A.R.T. is just masturbatory trivia.
Not that I'm knocking masturbation.
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Wed Mar 16, 2016 8:40 pm
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Re: So, I can now monitor my HDD and SSD health
It's good to have some warning though when the parts are nearing their end of life so you know when it's a good time to switch out/move the data to a safer place (whether you are backing it all up or not). Also, not everyone is using enough drives for a RAID or distributed file system to matter a lot (costs money to add that many drives for everything).
With SSDs though, you can also simply make them last longer with a few quick switches to reduce unneccessary writes that wear them down faster than HDDs, though with a lot of the latest NANDs they are getting to the point that they can handle a significant number of writes over a very long time, even the consumer grade ones, so it's LESS necessary if you have newer drives.
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