S.M.A.R.T errors

[Zirax]

Well one of my Seagate 500gb's has just decided to die. I had noticed late last night that one of the hdds wasn't sounding very healthy but there were no smart errors so I just ignored it. Just booted into windows and it seems in its very last screams of life it threw a smart error

Maybe I understood smart wrong but I thought that a hdd would give more warning than just buggering up that quickly. ie more of a degradation. I suppose the extra noise was a warning, but odd that nothing was reported?

I do have to say that the intel storage manager on the new motherboards is damn good. A big improvement over the nvidia raid that was on the Nforce models.

I'm more miffed that its only a few months old.