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SMART status reports are not to be relied upon. 'Good' SMART status drives can still fail...
High temperature and heavy usage are found not to correlate to failures. Infant (<3 months) and elderly (>5 years) drives appear to fail most.
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf
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