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ttuuxxx
 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Well If you ever wondered about your hard drive health, this tool will give you a wealth of information about your hard drive. Would be good to have in your toolbox, or if your buying a used PC 
ttuuxxx Some users might need libgio, below is the pet for it
_________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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Aitch
 Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK |
hey ttuuxxx I'd love to find an used PC with a 750Gb harddrive in that condition... 
Useful looking tool Aitch
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aragon
Joined: 15 Oct 2007 Posts: 1690 Location: Germany |
ttuuxxx, gsmartcontrol is missing libgio. aragon _________________ PUPPY SEARCH: http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html |
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Sylvander
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 2856 Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK |
Yes, I posted about it here. Notice I found pets for the missing dependencies, but there were problems when installing them. |
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
posted libgio above, sorry guys, most of the puppy I deal with these days have it included
ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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James C
 Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4743 Location: Kentucky |
Installed and works fine in the "official" 430 (2.6.30.5). Going to install in 420 next. |
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AF Branden
 Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 175 Location: United States, WA |
Is there a way I can get the exact health of the drive rather than just a passed? On winXP I use a program called hdd health that shows exaclty how much life the drive has left. I've been trying to find a similiar tool for linux. I tried hdd health in wine and it didn't seem to work properly. 
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lapis
Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 185 |
I find it hard to believe that such a thing actually works. I had a drive recently die without any warning or indication. However, another drive started reporting imminent failure almost four years ago. Guess what? That one is still going. |
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DMcCunney
Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 894 |
I'm cynical about S.M.A.R.T. technology for similar reasons. I have a drive that has been announcing it was about to fail for several years, yet runs flawlessly. I finally turned off SMART support for that drive in the BIOS to shut it up and avoid the delays imposed when I booted. The sort of thing the OP talks about is probably using a Mean Time Between Failure estimate for the drive to serve as the baseline against which it calculates. It's a rule-of-thumb measure, and might be useful as an indicator about when I should start thinking about replacing the drive, but it's not something I'd take as any sort of absolute. ______ Dennis |
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Monsie
 Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 465 Location: Kamloops BC Canada |
ttuuxxx, I just wanted to confirm that this system utility works on Wary 5.2.2 with the libgio pet installed also. It's also worth noting that the smart technology for hard drives has been in place for quite some time because it works on my 1999 Pentium 3 desktop. Monsie _________________ My username is pronounced: "mun-see". Derived from my surname, it was my nickname throughout high school. |
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