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SMART Technology
Name: Avi Date: November 16, 2003 at 16:01:08 Pacific OS: Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: P4 2.8 Ghz / 512 MB
Comment:
Hi, Does someone know what is "SMART Technology" in relation to hard drives and motherboards/bios ? My motherboard set it to "Disable" by default and I'm in the dilemma of enabling it or not. Do you know what are the pros and cons ? Thank you
Name: larry Date: November 16, 2003 at 16:07:24 Pacific
Reply:
SMART monitors hard drives for errors and attempts to predict imminent failure. Personnaly I disable it because i am not convinced that it's really very good at it and it must slow accesses somewhat.
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Response Number 2
Name: Stuart Date: November 16, 2003 at 16:16:23 Pacific
Reply:
SMART - Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology.
It is a well defined technology used by nearly all disk manufactures. I would enable it. It could save you some grief in the future if your hard disk decides to throw a wobbler.
There are programmes that will minitor SMART parameters and warn you when something is going wrong.
Try this for starters:
http://www.panterasoft.com/
This is a freeware offering but does the job well enough.
Stuart
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Response Number 3
Name: Badboy Date: November 16, 2003 at 18:36:56 Pacific
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