What's so smart about SSDs? Plenty. Here's what you need to know when deploying them in your VMware virtualization practice. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to introduce SSDs or other ...

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or SMART is a feature on a computer’s hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, ...

SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept -- it's meant to tell you if a hard drive is about to die -- but in practice, I think we can all ...

I'm in the process of reanimating our home server on nas4free. The system has 2 WD Red 4.0 TB drives currently, which I've added/formatted and I've been basically just letting soak for a few days ...

Like virtually all PC components, SSDs have a finite lifespan. They have a limited number of operations they can complete before they begin to rapidly degrade, and while this number is quite high even ...

I'd like a 2nd pair of eyes to look these over. I think the SMART attributes are suggesting a disk failure. Certainly the server that it boots is freaking out badly and indicating file system problems ...

It's a given that all disks eventually die, and it's easy to see why. The platters in a modern disk drive rotate more than a hundred times per second, maintaining submicron tolerances between the disk ...

A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives’ Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As I explained at the time, SMART is ...

SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept -- it's meant to tell you if a hard drive is about to die -- but in practice, I think we can all ...