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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by XorNot on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:08PM (#18973082)
AFAIK Google have said they never really find any correlation between SMART errors and actual drive failures.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by HillaryBriss on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @05:18PM (#18973169)
Interesting. Have not heard that before. My anecdotal experience in that NAS enclosure with Seagate drives was that when, IIRC, "Reallocated Sector Count" started to go up week after week, the drive would fail within a few months.
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