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

[Clay]

Bobby Gill wrote:
> 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...

Lets see... 25 years uptime?

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