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Originally Posted by AndrewJ
I used Passmark DiskCheckup allow me to see all the SMART data for the drive and hence see if something was getting ready to fail.
( and it was )
Andrew
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That's a cool utility. I used something similar in the past called
HD Tune Pro. Keeping a tab on the SMART attributes is great. Best change the drive as soon as one of them gets flagged. I've had Win7 pro on this PC since 2010 and probably changed the boot drive 4 or 5 times and the two other data drives once or twice. Only in one instance did the boot drive packed it without warning out of the blue. But otherwise the SMART data always prompted me ahead.