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[–] 2 pts

Corruption can come from a failing SSD/HDD.

The SMART status has become a complete waste of data that you can’t trust anymore. I’ve got a Crucial SSD that I’ve been using as a hot weekly backup. That mofo has been silently corrupting video/audio/archive files. The reason I realized it is because some projects I needed to resume/restore data from a previous backup started showing frame glitches, stuttering in audio tracks and errors while trying to open archives.

SMART status reported that SSD as healthy without a single error.

I did some test copying different files into multiple external devices, and issues were only happening with that SSD.

SMART status is supposed to warn you before a storage device is about to fail.

Never trust it and use redundant backup solutions if your data is important.

[–] 5 pts

I have never in my two decades of screwing with these cursed machine found SMART data that indicated a problem and facilitated a solution. Nope, the drive just dies, and it doesn't want to talk about it.