Comment by justsomehnguy

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=32033520&goto=item%3Fi...

I've seen too many dead disks with a perfect SMART. When the numbers go down (or up) and triggers are fired then you are surely need to replace the disk[0], but SMART without warnings just means nothing.

[0] my desktop run for years entirely on the disks removed from the client PCs after a failure. Some of them had a pretty bad SMART, on a couple I needed to move the starting point of the partition a couple GBs further from the sector 0 (otherwise they would stall pretty soon), but overall they worked fine - but I never used them as a reliable storage and I knew I can lose them anytime.

Of course I don't use repurposed drives in the servers.

PS and when I tried to post it I received " We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry! " Sheesh.