Re: [smartmontools-support] Predicting future unreadable sectors

[Serguei M. <mi...@ci...>]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 14:39, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 13:56:34 -0700,
>
>   Serguei Miridonov <mi...@ci...> wrote:
> > In fact, it means that some data loss is unavoidable
> > before user will start to worry about disk replacement.
> > BTW, I don't know any vendor specific tool, for Hitachi
> > disks, for example, that would show minor errors and
> > suggest a user to reallocate those sectors. They typically
> > scan the disk and reallocate sectors only when error
> > becomes uncorrectable. Or, am I wrong?
>
> That is one reason you want to run RAID.

On a notebook?