02-05-2017, 05:05 AM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote: My experience is that SMART Utility gives the best info when you pay attention to it and will usually only give a clear warning in a period of about 72 hours before it completely fails.
With the default settings, SMART Utility will mark a drive with a yellow FAILING alert for a single bad sector.
The Disk Utility won't mark a drive as failing until it's a doorstop.