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I mean, SMART doesn't help much with knowing about HDDs' death either. It's more often they don't show up at all, so you can't even check SMART.
It's not about the death. It's about if it's going to die. I've seen smart errors weeks before a hdd died which gave me time to back that data up.
I see what you mean. It helps predict that, but not always. This is still a lottery, and the absence of SMART only makes it a little bit more of a lottery.