[Ti] PC travelstars in tibooks?

[Kynan Shook]

SMART status is not likely to change.  It measures a variety of 
performance metrics (such as error rates, how long it takes the drive 
to spin up, etc.) and uses those measurements over time to try to guess 
when the drive is beginning to lose its reliability.  Just that you 
mention having headaches with it probably indicates that there are 
major hardware problems.
Other signs of failure are drives that exhibit unusually slow 
performance, or any kind of unusual scraping, repetitive clicking, or 
other noise.  Those often indicate that your drive has only hours left 
to live.

maf291 at nyu.edu writes:
> Thanks! on that same note... Am I to assume that my 45 gig Travelstar
> that shipped with my 667 is definitely fried, if after lots of 
> headaches,
> a complete 3 day long low level reformat, Disk Utility still shows it 
> as
> S.M.A.R.T. status: failing?