Monitoring SMART Hard Drives

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What is the best freeware available to monitor the status of your hard drive
that has the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
technology built into it? I know most new hard drives now have this
technology built into it and many people seem to think its a pretty good
system.

Thanks in advanced

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Devang Devani wrote:

> What is the best freeware available to monitor the status of your hard drive
> that has the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
> technology built into it? I know most new hard drives now have this
> technology built into it and many people seem to think its a pretty good
> system.

HDD Health and DTemp both seem to work pretty well.
But for the most detailed smart report, try smartmontools.
Run smartctl -a /dev/hda to check your first drive with smartmontools.


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> > What is the best freeware available to monitor the status of your hard drive
> > that has the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
> > technology built into it? I know most new hard drives now have this
> > technology built into it and many people seem to think its a pretty good
> > system.
>
> HDD Health and DTemp both seem to work pretty well.
> But for the most detailed smart report, try smartmontools.
> Run smartctl -a /dev/hda to check your first drive with smartmontools.

http://smartmontools.sf.net/

 

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Bruce Allen wrote:

>>>What is the best freeware available to monitor the status of your hard drive
>>>that has the SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
>>>technology built into it? I know most new hard drives now have this
>>>technology built into it and many people seem to think its a pretty good
>>>system.
>>
>>HDD Health and DTemp both seem to work pretty well.
>>But for the most detailed smart report, try smartmontools.
>>Run smartctl -a /dev/hda to check your first drive with smartmontools.
>
>
> http://smartmontools.sf.net/


Ah yes, I guess I could have included links, for the Google-impaired.


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