Small business backups solutions?

[Ben Scott]

On Feb 5, 2008 6:11 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> e.SATA lets you use S.M.A.R.T so you can know if a drive is ailing.

  s/can/might/

  I've discovered SMART isn't always that smart.  I've had drives
which were actively returning media errors to the host adapter, and
were then unable to complete the smartctl tests successfully, still
report their overall SMART health status as good.  I imagine this
varies with manufacturer/drive/firmware/weather/etc.

  Just an FYI.  Better to have SMART than not, for sure.

-- Ben