• rdri@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Worst part is that SD cards don’t have SMART, meaning you don’t know when they’ll die.

    I mean, SMART doesn’t help much with knowing about HDDs’ death either. It’s more often they don’t show up at all, so you can’t even check SMART.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not about the death. It’s about if it’s going to die. I’ve seen smart errors weeks before a hdd died which gave me time to back that data up.

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        3 months ago

        I see what you mean. It helps predict that, but not always. This is still a lottery, and the absence of SMART only makes it a little bit more of a lottery.