Harddisk Error Analyse Monitoring Smart+

The Google Document and also from the ISP contains some interesting Information on temperature in Server rooms and the reliability of server disks.

People also found out that depending on the manufacturer of the Hard disk and the Main board sometimes the SMART+ Information

is useless on Desktop or laptop disks. Disk with Reallocation recount did not fail soon and Disk which had allocation recount Zero/0 did fail in short times.

https://kb.acronis.com/de/content/19836

https://www.backblaze.com/blog-smart-stats-2014-8.html

http://www.almico.com/sfarticle.php?id=2

http://www.easis.com/smart-value-interpretation.html

Google report:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

Google even has a patent I think resulting from that study:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6412089

Background read scanning with defect reallocation