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> This article has an unfortunate omission by ignoring drives' S.M.A.R.T. reporting system

TFA states:

I have taken to using a 'burnin' script to wrap smartctl tests before and after in order to have relatively high confidence that the drive will not fail soon.

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The script I used can be found on Github here

Agree this could be discussed in a bit more detail, but it is actually there.



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