Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
On Feb 21,
2016, at 5:58 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
Because the proprietary on-board controller is saying "Everything's OK,
boss!" whilst madly emptying a swampful of alligators.
This is no different from any "SMART" rusty drive.
The SMART diagnostics data ought to tell you about reallocated sectors,
and apparently this is actually useful in practice.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-smart-stats/
Tony.
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