disable S.M.A.R.T ?

Mr Spoon · 14 Jul 2006 at 19:51

good idea ? any performance benefits from disabling it ?

semi-pro waster · 14 Jul 2006 at 20:33

Not a particularly good idea in my eyes, SMART doesn't always do much but it can inform you that the drive is failing and even if it only works in say 50% of cases then that is 50% of people with at least the chance to save their data.

No I doubt there is any real performance benefit, it is a pretty low overhead and I reckon the benefits outweigh the downside.

Mr Spoon · 14 Jul 2006 at 20:47

do you need some disk software to check its status or would windows tell you when it thinks your disk is about to die ?

semi-pro waster · 14 Jul 2006 at 20:53

I believe Windows records it all but won't necessarily tell you its results, I'd use something like Speedfan intermittently to check on the drives status. Bios will tell you on boot up as well I think.