The limits of SMART drive warnings

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Dr. Dave says the irony of hard-drive SMART monitoring is that a warning may arrive only when the drive and its data are already gone. He connects that experience with Google's large server-farm study, which challenged common assumptions about both SMART prediction and the role of temperature or drive age.

1:25 · Consulting Philosophy

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