https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254313
--- Comment #10 from Harald Sitter <sit...@kde.org> --- This is already on my radar and I am talking with people about it. It's not an easy change (because it requires some restructuring in kpmcore), it's also not a quick change, and I do agree with Kai that it's not critical either. HDDs and SSDs do not live forever, they never did, this isn't a new development, nor is it a wide spread problem as you'd have to run a disk 24/7 for substantial amounts of time under substantial amount of load to see it fail (more so for HDDs than SSDs of course). The average user is much more likely to encounter failure from accidents than from regular wear. On top of that, SMART data is only partly helping, a drive can absolutely fail without prior warning signs and the other way around there can be warning signs but the disk continues to operate fine for many more years. Eduardo Pinheiro et al published a good paper on the matter a long while ago: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf We definitely want a SMART monitor. Albeit not critically. If one has important data then data retention should probably involve two or more disks and ideally at least one shouldn't be from the 80s :) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
