[Rustington] PC Hard Drive Failure

[Paul Willis]

On Ubuntu the standard "disk utility" thoroughly covers SMART data.
Indeed I have seen the "less than 24 hours" warning followed within
the hour by silence :( -but it gave me the excuse to put ubuntu on a
replacement drive for the laptop.
When I needed root privileges the other day I found the gnome disk
utility is called "palimpsest" from the command line.GOK why.
Fortunately it is all fairly self explanatory because there seems to
be no man page nor much more on the gnome web site..
P

On 20 November 2012 11:15, Stuart McFadyen
<stuart.624mcfadyen at btinternet.com> wrote:
> At some time or other we are going to face a Hard Drive failure on our PC's
> or Laptops, as average life is stated as around 5 years, so backups are
> essential.
>
> If you experience a sudden permanent slow down in performance, best to check
> your Hard Drive(s).
>
> It is worth downloading and installing the Acronis Drive Monitor, from
> http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/drive-monitor/ which is a
> small utility reporting historical S.M.A.R.T. hard drive data.
>
> A fully functional Hard Drive should report 100% Health, but I recently saw
> a customers problematic Laptop reporting only 30% Health ... a crash
> possibly imminent !!!
>
> When downloading IGNORE the request to include additional Acronis software
> products ...
>
> Stuart.
>
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