[mythtv-users] How reliable/accurate is hdsentinel?

[Bobby Gill]

I just discovered this program from a thread in my distro forum and have run
it on my mythbox, desktop machine and laptop. I run smartctl time to time
but thought I'd try this too. The Health and Performance are what I'm
curious about, whether they are accurate indicators? Example on my myth
machine:

Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.03 (c) 2008-2009 info at hdsentinel.com
Start with -r [reportfile] to save data to report, -h for help

Examining hard disk configuration ...

HDD Device  0: /dev/sda
HDD Model ID : MAXTOR 4K040H2
HDD Serial No: 672121424162
HDD Revision : A08.1500
HDD Size     : 38183 MB
Interface    : IDE/ATA
Temperature  : 25 °C
*Health       : 99 %
Performance  : 100 %*
Power on time: 9383 days, 20 hours
Est. lifetime: more than 99 days

HDD Device  1: /dev/sdb
HDD Model ID : WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
HDD Serial No: WD-WCAS85371659
HDD Revision : 12.01C02
HDD Size     : 476940 MB
Interface    : S-ATA II
Temperature  : 38 °C
*Health       : 100 %
Performance  : 100 %*
Power on time: 980 days, 21 hours
Est. lifetime: more than 844 days

HDD Device  2: /dev/sdc
HDD Model ID : WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0
HDD Serial No: WD-WMAPW1118482
HDD Revision : 12.01C01
HDD Size     : 476940 MB
Interface    : S-ATA II
Temperature  : 31 °C
Health       : 100 %
Performance  : 100 %
Power on time: 1052 days, 4 hours
Est. lifetime: more than 772 days


Thanks
Bobby
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