Robert Spotswood | 26 Jun 2012 06:04
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matching up Google's hard drive study and smarttools output

In Google's hard drive study, they focused on four smart "signals" that 
are useful in predicting hard drive failure: scan errors, reallocation 
counts, offline reallocations, and probational counts. Of the four, 
reallocation is the only one I recognize in smarttool's output as being 
attribute #5, reallocation sectors count (seen with smartctl -a /dev/sd?).

Since all four items are smart items, what do the other 3 correspond to 
in the smarttools output?

Do scan errors mean the results of a short or long test that fails?

Looking through the list of attributes, my best guess for offline 
reallocations is #198, Uncorrectable Sector Count/Offline Uncorrectable/
Off-Line Scan Uncorrectable Sector Count and probational counts is #197, 
Current Pending Sector Count. But I don't know if I'm correct, or more 
likely, not.

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