- S.M.A.R.T. Capability
- Posted by Andy on November 26th, 2005
To All Cognoscenti, Greetings!
When running Norton Ghost, the opening screen displays the following for
both HDDs: "S.M.A.R.T. capability disabled." Should I be concerned? If so,
how can I enable S.M.A.R.T. capability in Windows XP Prof?
Thanks in advance.
Andy
- Posted by Bob on November 26th, 2005
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:11:12 GMT, "Andy" <kanadaiy@telus.net> wrote:
I was told by Tech Support at MSI (MIcroStar Intl.), a large maker of
motherboards, not to turn SMART on in the BIOS.
However, certain applications can access SMART directly without the
BIOS, so you can find out the condition of your HD. One such
application is the very popular free Everest Home Edition.
http://www.lavalys.com/products/over...?pid=1&lang=en
Also MotherBoard Monitor 5 (MBM5) can be configured to read the
temperature of a hard drive, which presumably is done thru SMART.
http://mbm.livewiredev.com/download.html
As I understand it MBM5 is no longer under development.
--
"One must realize that the world is a network of real and virtual
combat zones where the stakes are high, struggle is the primary
mode of being and only total victory is acceptable.
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art Of War"
- Posted by Mike on November 26th, 2005
SMART will slowdown the start-up of your PC.
You can enable it in bios if you want.
If you notice problems with your hard drive, files becoming corrupted,
missing files, taking ages to find files etc turn it on to check for
problems.
Mike
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- Posted by Bob on November 26th, 2005
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:34:59 GMT, "Mike"
<mikeguest@nospam.blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
What will the BIOS-enabled SMART tell you that Everest won't tell you?
--
"One must realize that the world is a network of real and virtual
combat zones where the stakes are high, struggle is the primary
mode of being and only total victory is acceptable.
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art Of War"
- Posted by kony on November 26th, 2005
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 16:20:18 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
.... the SMART state of the drives every time you POST the
system, without having to manually run Everest, so you have
as much advanced warning as possible without having to check
after there's a problem. When a drive begins failing, it
can be very helpful to have every opportunity possible to
try to copy off data immediately... if for some reason the
user had not made timely backups, of course.
When it works properly, SMART is a very good idea.
- Posted by Andy on November 27th, 2005
I have both Everest Home Edition and MBM5 installed.
Thanks.
Andy
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- Posted by Andy on November 27th, 2005
Thank you all for your suggestions. I guess I'll stay with Everest and MBM5
without turning on S.M.A.R.T.
Andy
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- Posted by Bob on November 27th, 2005
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 22:24:56 GMT, kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
That's what I thought. So why did the MCI tech tell me to disable it?
--
"One must realize that the world is a network of real and virtual
combat zones where the stakes are high, struggle is the primary
mode of being and only total victory is acceptable.
-- Sun Tzu, "The Art Of War"
- Posted by kony on November 27th, 2005
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:17:59 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) wrote:
Either:
1) They are succeptible to urban legend like anyone else.
2) On that particular board the Smart isn't working
properly.
- Posted by Ian East on November 30th, 2005
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:20:57 GMT, "Andy" <kanadaiy@telus.net> wrote:
You definitely should use SMART. You can use smartctl to enable SMART
on your disk and view it's SMART information. It's something I really
can no longer live without. You won't really notice any performance
degredation unless you schedule disk self tests.
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
