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ExtremeTech reports that in a long-term study conducted by Google “… presented at a storage conference last week, found that the SMART predictive analysis used to calculate the likelihood of disk-drive errors is almost ineffective, although basic disk checks can signal that a drive is about to fail.” More …

DiskWarrior makes use of this SMART technology to check drives. I will try to get an answer as to whether they agree with Google.