Hi there!
Good news for all interested in hardware compatibility and reliability.
I've started a new project to estimate reliability of hard drives and SSD in real-life
conditions based on the SMART data reports collected by Linux users in the
Linux-Hardware.org database since 2014. The initial data (SMART reports), analysis methods
and results are publicly shared in a new github repository:
https://github.com/linuxhw/SMART. Everyone can contribute to the report by uploading
probes of their computers by the hw-probe tool!
The primary aim of the project is to find drives with longest "power on hours"
and minimal number of errors. The following formula is used to measure reliability:
Power_On_Hours / (1 + Number_Of_Errors), i.e. time to the first error/between errors.
Please be careful when reading the results table. Pay attention not only to the rating,
but also to the number of checked model samples. If rating is low, then look at the number
of power-on days and number of errors occurred. New drive models will appear at the end of
the rating table and will move to the top in the case of long error-free operation.
Thanks to ROSA, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, openSUSE, Arch, Gentoo users and others who
had made this work possible by contribution to the database!