preformance with SMART enabled

[Martin]

I notice that the SMART setting for the hard drives in
the bios is disabled. It says if it is enabled it will be
at the cost of performance. Is it worth enabling SMART?.
Both my hard drives are fairly new. Thank you

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

I notice that the SMART setting for the hard drives in
the bios is disabled. It says if it is enabled it will be
at the cost of performance. Is it worth enabling SMART?.

Yes. Because the SMART feature is an additional test of the hardware
during bootup (only) you will not get a general performance loss by
enabling it.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

Yes SMART will forewarn you of immanent Hard Drive failure. No it will not
cause any noticeable performance degradation
http://www.pctechguide.com/04disk2.htm#SMART
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/smart-technology.html (link posted for
information only and is not an endorsement for the product Active SMART)