5th
March
2020
Beat the break
Earlier this week, I happened to find some donationware that does something useful (for me). The package tests the hard drive(s) in your computer, including the S.M.A.R.T. parameters, and awards your drive(s) a score. That is: good, caution or fail (I think). One of my drives is now flagged as caution, after more than 56,000 hours of spin time. That alone is a statistic that surprised me, although it shouldn’t. This is not a new laptop, at all.
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