koitsu
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Mountain View, CA
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Re: S.M.A.R.T. shows obviously wrong attribute!
No problem. Knowing how to read SMART stats -- specifically, when to and when not to trust RAW_VALUE -- is incredibly important. Sadly there's no "global standard" for interpreting the results, which is why smartctl has a drive database.
Also, if you plan on using an SSD, you will run into headaches. I document what my experience was like with XP, but the same applies to *IX operating systems. To me, the pain of setting it up (at least on Windows XP -- it's less of a pain on *IX given the low-level nature of partitioning/fs utilities) wasn't worth it. If I ran an *IX OS on my desktop, I'd probably have reinstalled the OS + repartitioned at the proper block boundary and been thrilled. But without a 2nd PC around, this isn't easy to do on XP. 
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