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7/2/07 at 8:55am
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Well whenever my pc starts up at post it says the S.M.A.R.T feature is disabled..i know its got something to do with hard drives..so if i enable it, will i gain some sort of advantage..or is it just pointless?
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SMART is a facility that checks the health of your HDD'S and will inform you if there about to fail.
post #3 of 5
7/2/07 at 11:07am
its kinda pointless, because even with it disabled, windows based programs can still acess SMART functions...but i'd enable it, cuz there isnt a performance hit or anything
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7/2/07 at 11:09am
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its kinda pointless, because even with it disabled, windows based programs can still acess SMART functions...but i'd enable it, cuz there isnt a performance hit or anything
Yes, there is a performance hit. The HD sends SMART data periodically and this takes data transfers.
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7/3/07 at 6:51am
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Orite thanks for that guys..i guess ill leave it off.
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