[Ti] SmartReporter says my drive my fail soon?

[Peter Sealy]

On 18/04/2005, at 2:39 PM, Robert Nicholson wrote:

> So,
>
> My pb 1.67MHZ is about say 1 month old and already Smart Reporter 
> predicts impending drive-failure?
>
> Just how accurate is SMARTReporter?

I believe the accepted wisdom [no quotes, just accumulated memory from 
reading many posts] is that if SMART does not say your HD is about to 
fail then your HD may or may not fail, but if SMART does say your HD is 
about to fail then it will. As the saying goes, run don't walk to get 
another HD and transfer all your data to it, but then your backup is 
current so that may not be relevant.

As a side issue, you refer to your powerbook as 1.67 mhz. I did not 
know Titaniums had that processor level. Have you had a processor 
upgrade in your Ti? If so, how did it perform? Was it hard to do? Did 
you do it yourself? I may be interested in such an upgrade, if 
possible. I have a Ti 867.
........

Peter Sealy
Thurgoona AUSTRALIA