According to Mac.blorge, Every hard drive sold today includes built-in diagnostics designed to warn users before a disk actually fails, giving users a chance to backup and/or transfer data. They are reporting that on MacBreak Weekly Peter Krogh said that Apple’s Disk Utility has Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) built-in, but it has been effectively crippled so it doesn’t report a problem until it’s too late.
I can’t say that I know this is a true, but if it is, shame on Apple.
Read the full article here: Disk Utility’s dirty little secret and the antidote – MAC.BLORGE.
