From what I can tell SMART analysis, as supplied by testing tools comes in 2 forms, simple and complex. "Simple" reporting seems to be used on tools like Disk Utility, Scannerz, and SMARTReporter.

Western Digital, which employs 250 people at its Rochester facility, opened its expanded System Integration and Test Lab this ...

I have a late 2006 (plastic) iMac. It started acting up a little so I ran Scannerz w/FSE on the drive to scan it, and sure enough it found bad sectors plus a fair number of sectors that are damaged ...

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Toshiba has taken a big step forward in hard drive technology by successfully testing the world’s first 12-disk HDD in a ...