SMART for HDDs/SSDs as Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2017-05-06
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832 words · ~4 min read
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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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