On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:48:03 Kwan Lowe wrote: > 2009/8/4 mcclnx mcc <mcclnx at yahoo.com.tw>: > [snip] > > > my questions are: > > > > 1. is this disk really "degrade" or not? > > > > 2. how O.S. can predicate disk going to failure? > > > > 3. do I need replace this disk now? > > I understand that the drive electronics can check things such as the > time it takes to read a sector, number of failures per read, retries > before success etc.. This information gets processed and reported to > the OS via SMART as some others have replied. > > But I really just want to say that within one day of getting SMART > errors, my disk failed. > FWIW, Smart started noting problems on my laptop drive, and the manufacturer accepted a Smart report as sufficient to warrant a replacement drive being fitted under warranty. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090804/0c0f88b3/attachment-0005.sig>