[mdlug] So... SMART tools. Do they work, and if so how?

[Carl T. Miller]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> 1.       Do SMART tools actually work in practice? Is there anything I
> could have done differently to get even a hint of warning about this?

Yes, SMART tools do work, but they are designed to detect
when drives have a specific problem, namely when sectors
on the media are going bad.  I don't know of any tools that
can predict a total failure like the one you experienced.

c