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don't you wish more things in life would let you know when they are about to go bad like the vegetables in the back of your fridge or that relationship that you feel a little uneasy about well fortunately most modern hard drives and SSDs are smart enough to tell you if they're at risk of dying with a tool called self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology or smart pun intended you can think of smart a little bit like those newfangled information systems in modern cars just as they'll let you know if your tire pressure is low or if your engine is overheating smart monitors a number of different potential problem areas that could indicate that your drive is about to fail but why just disk drives why isn't there smart like features for graphics cards motherboards and even memory well when these components fail you can usually just replace them then chug along as usual but when a disk drive fails a common consequence is data loss so if you don't have a backup all those family photos and saved games might be gone for good so how does smart know when your drive might be on its last legs well smart can keep track of over 80 different attributes that tie into drive reliability everything from how long it takes your drive to spin up that's zero to 7200 rpm to readwrite errors vibration levels temperature data throughput how many bad sectors have been relocated to elsewhere on the disk uncorrectable errors we're leveling and right cycles if you have an SSD and lots more well that sounds great Luke but how do I even know if smart is saying anything about my drive the packaging didn't even say anything about smart at all and I can't find anything anywhere in Windows well windows actually does have rudimentary smart support baked in to check it out open up a command prompt window and type these commands if it says status okay then Smart hasn't detected any problems but if there are any issues you'll get a different message there also plenty of both free and paid third-party disk utilities with smart support that are not only more user friendly but can give you a lot more detail as well as real time warnings as soon as smart thinks something is amiss but for all the things that smart can keep track of it still isn't perfect a recent study from the cloud storage concern Backblaze found that failed drives showed a smart error in one of five crucial attributes only 77% of the time and while that isn't a low number by any means it does show that there's a significant possibility that smart might not alert you if your drive is in fact dying that doesn't mean that smart is useless but it does mean that you should pay attention and be alert to your drive behaving in any weird ways whether you suddenly start getting disk errors or the drive starts making disconcerning noises so basically you should be using smart in addition to your own vigilance but if smart does find something you'll probably want to make sure that you have some kind of backup right away as 23% of the failed drives that did indicate errors in back Blaze's study only reported one error before they went kaput so have a contingency plan in place it's the smart thing to do Squarespace is the simple powerful and beautiful website building and hosting tool that has 24/7 live chat and email support if you have any problems and only cost twelve dollars a month and if you buy it for a year you get a free domain thrown in as well they have responsive design on all of their templates so that your website will look great on any device they have commerce modules that come with every website where you can just host a store and sell your own stuff and they even have cover page features if you just want one of those newfangled fancy one-page websites and they have a new beta right now where they have PayPal integration with your Squarespace store making payments easier for both you and your customers feel free to start a trial with no credit card required and start building your own website today and when you do sign up for Squarespace make sure you use offer code tech to get 10% off your first purchase alright guys if you like this video like it if you disliked it dislike it get subscribed check out channel super-fun because that's super cool and down below if you have suggestions for other technologies or various videos that we should do let us know in the comments down below I will see you guys next time