don't you wish more things in life would let you know when they are about to go
bad like the vegetables in the back of your fridge or that relationship that
you feel a little uneasy about well
fortunately most modern hard drives and ssds are smart enough to tell you if
they're at risk of dying with a tool called self-monitoring analysis and
Reporting technology or smart pun intended you can think of smart a little
bit like those new fangled information systems in modern cars just as let you
know if your tire pressure is low or if your engine is overheating smart
monitors a number of different potential problem areas that could indicate that
your drive is about to fail but why just
dis drives why isn't there smart like features for graphics cards motherboards
and even memory well when these components fail you can usually just
replace them then chug along as usual but when a dis Drive fails a common
consequence is data loss so if you don't have a backup all those family photos
and save games might be gone for good so how does Smart know when your drive
might be on its last legs well smart can keep track of over 80 different
attributes that tie into drive reliability everything from how long it
takes your drive to spin up that's 0 to 7200 RPM to read write errors vibration
levels temperature data throughput how many bad sectors have been relocated to
Elsewhere on the disc uncorrectable errors wear leveling and right Cycles if
you have an SSD and lots more well that
sounds great Luke but how do I even know if smart is saying anything about my
drive the packaging didn't even say anything about smart at all and I can't
find anything anywhere in Windows well Windows actually does have rudimentary
smart support baked in to check it out open up a command prompt window and type
these commands if it says status okay then smart hasn't detected any problems
but if there are any issues you'll get a different message there are also plenty
of both free and paid third-party disc utilities with smart support that are
not only more userfriendly but can give you a lot more detail as well as
realtime warnings as soon as smart thinks something is a Miss but for all
the things that smart can keep track of it still isn't perfect a recent study
from the cloud storage concern back Blaze found that failed drives showed a
smart error in one of five crucial attributes only 77% of the time and
while that isn't a low number by any means it does show that there's a
significant possibility that smart might not alert you if your drive is in fact
dying that doesn't mean that smart is useless but it does mean that you should
pay attention and be alert to your drive behaving in any weird ways whether you
suddenly start getting disc errors or the drive starts making disconcerning
noises so basically you should be using Smart in addition to your own vigilance
but if smart does find something you'll probably want to make sure that you have
some kind of backup right away as 23% of
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