How reliable is S.M.A.R.T. Status?

Hello,
I had a talk with a guy from the Genius Bar yesterday and he seem to have lots of knowledge on disk drives and failures.
He told me, the SMART check in disk utillity is very accurate, because it reads the hard disk SMART data.
I have a dying WD RED 3TB drive and was adviced to use a software called SMART Utillity for MAC.
When I run the software, it shows that 2 of my other 2 TB internal drives are about to fail.
But Disk Utillity shows : SMART Status: verified.
So which one would be more reliable?
Just back up is easy to say.... that is 4 TB + -if I can get the data of my dying drive 3 TB.
Thank you

SMART stands for "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" which is built into your HD. Disk Utility reads the SMART status as interpreted by the HD's self monitoring evaluation. If it says "Failing," believe it because the evaluation tends to be optimistic.
SMART Utility has its own criteria for interpreting the raw SMART data so its evaluation can be different. I have a couple of Seagate Barracudas which SMART Utility declared near death a couple of years ago and they're still running fine, and are also OK according to Disk Utility. However, YMMV so having a backup plan is a really good idea even if it'll take a while.

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