Drive failing alert WIN SERVER 2008...

[the86d]

This alert convinced me to reboot after running a "chkdsk /f D:" <Y>.
Upon reboot the bios alerted me to S.M.A.R.T. failure. The drive checked out fine with the chkdsk, but I have not hit my max sector reloc...YET.

This got me thinking since I have not seen a drive die on a Windows 7, or Win8 box, did M$ wise-up and include something to check as part of the OS these days?

Will Win7 alert to a drive S.M.A.R.T. notification, or do we still have to run some type of 3rd party S.M.A.R.T. monitor on M$ desktop OS's?

[meaty-btz]

Yes, windows, since 7, has been SMART aware.

[the86d]

Yes, windows, since 7, has been SMART aware.

Nice.

Now that they have caught up to Linux in one thing, unfortunately Linux needs to play catch-up in user-base, and applications.

I've already migrated away from Windows on my work-rig...

[stilly]

Windows XP I do not think does that. I noticed that I had a SMART failure notification start up after transferring 1TB of data to a brand new WD green drive so I shut it off and have not booted it up since. The SMART notice only showed up upon bootup.

Is this yet another service that windows7/8 has to have running because 84 services are not enough yet...

[the86d]

No, I think it is ONE of the 84...

[odysseus]

SMART alerts are not new at all to MS Server. Been around certainly for many years so long. However this conversation is mostly moot since for business class server hardware and systems, physical drive error monitoring has been around for ages and even proprietary alerting has been in place for Windows even in the NT Server days.

SMART for AT desktop hardware is a different kind of conversation.