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FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) (Miscellaneous)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 16.07.2010, 14:48

> > > I'm pretty naive in this area, but this is probably related to
> > S.M.A.R.T.
> > > technology. AFAICT, hard drives are notorious for flaking out after a
> > few
> > > years (not to mention modern technology in general).
> >
> > Wow, new Windows finally support SMART (after 15 years or so)?
>
> It was supported since XP (maybe a bit earlier, 2000)

Really? Where can I check my HDD SMART status? (without 3rd party tools).
But if you have RAID or some additional controller (like it was popular HPT3xx UATA133) then you will not read SMART because of stupidity of windows drivers :\

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

Complete thread:

• FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - DOS386, 14.07.2010, 03:55 (Miscellaneous)
  • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - Rugxulo, 14.07.2010, 18:50
    • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - RayeR, 15.07.2010, 12:09
      • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - roytam, 16.07.2010, 10:42
        • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - RayeR, 16.07.2010, 14:48
          • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - roytam, 17.07.2010, 05:40
            • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - RayeR, 17.07.2010, 14:57
              • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - DOS386, 23.07.2010, 07:45
                • FYI: DEATH (and the privilege to predict it reliably) - RayeR, 23.07.2010, 15:06