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

On Thu, 25 Jul 2024 20:20:38 +0100, David Higton wrote:

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.

BackBlaze is a company whose business is data integrity. Every 3 months
they publish a blog post on the reliability stats of the drives that they
use. They don’t replace drives until they fail. Individual failures have
essentially zero impact on their business, while replacing drives is a
cost.

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.

The problem is being caught by surprise 70% of the time.