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I have not experienced a hard drive failure!
The point of this post is to determine whether or not I can trust Windows' built-in hard drive failure warnings should such an event occur, or whether I should leave that job up to Intel RST. I keep the RST tray icon around only for this purpose, but if I don't need it there I would like to hide it (not remove the app entirely).
I've had Windows (Vista) warn me about a hard drive failure once (it was accurate).
Do they both just read the HDD SMART, or does the Intel app have some "secret sauce" that Windows doesn't?
The point of this post is to determine whether or not I can trust Windows' built-in hard drive failure warnings should such an event occur, or whether I should leave that job up to Intel RST. I keep the RST tray icon around only for this purpose, but if I don't need it there I would like to hide it (not remove the app entirely).
I've had Windows (Vista) warn me about a hard drive failure once (it was accurate).
Do they both just read the HDD SMART, or does the Intel app have some "secret sauce" that Windows doesn't?