Today I found Bruce Allen in my terminal!

Exard3k
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smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p10 amd64] (local build)<br />
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org<br />

 

He's not only directing the E@H project, he also appears to code very useful software. I was just checking my SSDs for Data units written and found his name after doing some syntax wrong. Great tool!

Mike Hewson
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Yeah Bruce is responsible,

Yeah Bruce is responsible, from the days of hard disks, for the self reporting of errors. The idea is to get a heads up on a failing drive. Indeed very useful stuff.

Cheers, Mike.

I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...

... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal

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