<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">."<br>><br>At work (where dozens of drives have died before retiring them) we
<br>have not had smart ever warn us of a drive about to die and smart is<br>enabled on most of our drives and systems. When we were lucky we were<br>able to hear the drive acting up and catch it in time to make a copy<br>
of the drive but this probably will be harder since drives are a lot<br>quieter now then they were 3 years ago. This along with the reduced<br>quality of current drives (compared to when they were > $300US) has<br>made me install raid5 or 6 on all my servers.
<br><br>John</blockquote><div><br><br>Funny,<br><br>I took a stroll through the Event Viewer of one of my desktop machines still running WinXP. I saw some errors there that the disk attached to a certain controller was about to fail.
<br><br>I'll be darned if it wasn't actually right. I ended up rebuiding that box three weeks later.<br></div></div>-Rich