Re: Is there a test suite for Pi2/armv7 ?

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          Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:35:02 +0100, druck wrote:
 

On 24/07/2024 01:34, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
 

Companies whose business it is to ensure data integrity do not rely on
SMART.

 
No, they use hardware RAID for redundancy, extensive performance
monitoring, and retire most disks before they fail based on the small
percentage of failures of thousands of other discs of the same type.

 
Actually, no. They wait until the disks actually fail before replacing
them.

Anyone with any sense would replace them before the bathtub failure curve
starts to rise, which is usually not long after the end of the warranty
period.

But that's not what the typical person with a Raspberry Pi and a couple
of discs is able to do. The SMART information gives valuable warning of
potential failures, to ignore it would be to employ the STUPID feature of
the user.

 
Unfortunately, SMART only catches about 30% of potential failures. That's
why relying on it is not smart.

It's smarter than catching 0% of potential failures by waiting until they
have already happened.

David