[Ti] SmartReporter says my drive my fail soon?

[Robert Nicholson]

This is not my Tibook it's my newer Al 1.67 PB 100gb 128 VRAM that was 
bought 28th February.

On Apr 18, 2005, at 12:11 AM, Peter Sealy wrote:

>
> 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
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