Citações do SecurityNow! número do podcast 81:
STEVE: The problem is, and in fact the reason that we’ve always used the slogan “SMART is dumb” at GRC, is we see dead drives all the time where the SMART system says, oh, everything’s fine.
LEO: It’s all working, no problem.
STEVE: Exactly. The drive can die spontaneously while SMART is completely happy and sees nothing going wrong. At the same time there are drives which look like they’re on their last throes from a standpoint of the SMART data that just keep on going for years.
Para encurtar a história, você não pode confiar nos dados SMART de maneira significativa. Se você quiser jogar com segurança, faça backup de seus dados, se quiser ser realmente seguro, faça backup e obtenha uma nova unidade.