[mythtv-users] How is this pricing possible?

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Rob Smith <kormoc at mythtv.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anybody that cares about the health of their drives should check into
>> smartmontools.
>>
>> http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
>>
>> It's cross-platform and free.   I've got mine set up to short scan
>> daily, long scan weekly, and email me when it detects impending failure.
>>  It's pretty slick!  And it has saved me several times.
>
> And entirely useless for Seagate drives. They dropped the SMART
> Standard and so the values you get are meaningless.

I use it for Seagate drives a lot. Most of the important values are sane.

05,195 to 199

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

John