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From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.
2 old SATA drives now hold my archive, and they were drives I already had ...
An external hard drive can potentially survive a fall, but plugging it in is only going to make the problem worse.
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It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...