Monitoring SMART Hard Drives

[Devang Devani]

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

 

[Will Dormann]

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.


-WD

 

[Bruce Allen]

What is the best freeware available to monitor the status of your hard drive

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/

 

[Will Dormann]

http://smartmontools.sf.net/

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


-WD