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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston_RIP" data-source="post: 787724" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>I don't... but I think, having a S.M.A.R.T. drive program is tantamount to managing multiple critical drives... I use DriveDx... </p><p></p><p>A bit of technical background... Pretty much all hard drives now are what are called S.M.A.R.T. drive... What that means is, a very small internal portion of the drive has a database that tracks a plethora of drive statistics for each drive... It was originally intended by the drive manufacturers to monitor the usage of the drive for manufacturing quality control reasons... The manufacturers know what/why and when a drive fails... so they created a small database to monitor that... There are programs, DriveDX being one, that reads that database, and reports on that... Large data centers use them frequently to monitor many server farms and their drives so that pre-emptive replacement and maintenance can be performed...</p><p></p><p>I'd suggest, if you have multiple drives and are worried about their expected failure rates and times, that you look into one... DriveDX is for Mac systems. An equivalent program, CrystalDiskInfo is for Windows...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx" target="_blank">https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/77497/CrystalDiskInfo8_17_3.exe/" target="_blank">https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/77497/CrystalDiskInfo8_17_3.exe/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred Kingston_RIP, post: 787724, member: 10742"] I don't... but I think, having a S.M.A.R.T. drive program is tantamount to managing multiple critical drives... I use DriveDx... A bit of technical background... Pretty much all hard drives now are what are called S.M.A.R.T. drive... What that means is, a very small internal portion of the drive has a database that tracks a plethora of drive statistics for each drive... It was originally intended by the drive manufacturers to monitor the usage of the drive for manufacturing quality control reasons... The manufacturers know what/why and when a drive fails... so they created a small database to monitor that... There are programs, DriveDX being one, that reads that database, and reports on that... Large data centers use them frequently to monitor many server farms and their drives so that pre-emptive replacement and maintenance can be performed... I'd suggest, if you have multiple drives and are worried about their expected failure rates and times, that you look into one... DriveDX is for Mac systems. An equivalent program, CrystalDiskInfo is for Windows... [url]https://binaryfruit.com/drivedx[/url] [url]https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/77497/CrystalDiskInfo8_17_3.exe/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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