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don't you wish more things in life would let you know when they are about to go

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bad like the vegetables in the back of your fridge or that relationship that

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you feel a little uneasy about well

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fortunately most modern hard drives and ssds are smart enough to tell you if

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they're at risk of dying with a tool called self-monitoring analysis and

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Reporting technology or smart pun intended you can think of smart a little

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bit like those new fangled information systems in modern cars just as let you

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know if your tire pressure is low or if your engine is overheating smart

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monitors a number of different potential problem areas that could indicate that

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your drive is about to fail but why just

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dis drives why isn't there smart like features for graphics cards motherboards

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and even memory well when these components fail you can usually just

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replace them then chug along as usual but when a dis Drive fails a common

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consequence is data loss so if you don't have a backup all those family photos

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and save games might be gone for good so how does Smart know when your drive

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might be on its last legs well smart can keep track of over 80 different

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attributes that tie into drive reliability everything from how long it

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takes your drive to spin up that's 0 to 7200 RPM to read write errors vibration

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levels temperature data throughput how many bad sectors have been relocated to

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Elsewhere on the disc uncorrectable errors wear leveling and right Cycles if

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you have an SSD and lots more well that

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sounds great Luke but how do I even know if smart is saying anything about my

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drive the packaging didn't even say anything about smart at all and I can't

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find anything anywhere in Windows well Windows actually does have rudimentary

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smart support baked in to check it out open up a command prompt window and type

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these commands if it says status okay then smart hasn't detected any problems

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but if there are any issues you'll get a different message there are also plenty

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of both free and paid third-party disc utilities with smart support that are

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not only more userfriendly but can give you a lot more detail as well as

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realtime warnings as soon as smart thinks something is a Miss but for all

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the things that smart can keep track of it still isn't perfect a recent study

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from the cloud storage concern back Blaze found that failed drives showed a

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smart error in one of five crucial attributes only 77% of the time and

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while that isn't a low number by any means it does show that there's a

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significant possibility that smart might not alert you if your drive is in fact

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dying that doesn't mean that smart is useless but it does mean that you should

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pay attention and be alert to your drive behaving in any weird ways whether you

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suddenly start getting disc errors or the drive starts making disconcerning

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noises so basically you should be using Smart in addition to your own vigilance

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but if smart does find something you'll probably want to make sure that you have

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some kind of backup right away as 23% of

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the failed drives that did indicate errors in back Blaze's study only

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reported one error before they went kaput so have a contingency plan in

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