S.M.A.R.T Monitoring

[Shark Boy]

Hi,

I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you
guys use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs
of values such as temperature and I was wonering how this was obtained.

The WD Data Lifeguard tools can't do this at all.

Thanks,

 

[Kevin Lawton]

| Hi,
|
| I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you
| guys use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs
| of values such as temperature and I was wonering how this was
| obtained.
|
| The WD Data Lifeguard tools can't do this at all.

Motherboard Monitor (MBM 5) can manage this for you.
It is basically for collecting and displaying m/board status, but can be
configured to work with the SMART info from HDDs.
It can share the info around a network, log it to a file, display it on a
screensaver, taskbar or desktop and lets you set up various alarms and run
programs from triggers.
Of course if you want it to do 'everything' then it uses a little system
resource, but it is good value-for-money.
Free download from: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ .
The only snag - it only work under Windoze. If you use Linux or BeOS then
you'll have to write your own, or wait for me !
Kevin.

 

[Cuzman]

" I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you guys
use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs of values
such as temperature and I was wonering how this was obtained. "


http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

 

[Shark Boy]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:15:53 +0000, Kevin Lawton wrote:

Motherboard Monitor (MBM 5) can manage this for you.
It is basically for collecting and displaying m/board status, but can be
configured to work with the SMART info from HDDs.
It can share the info around a network, log it to a file, display it on a
screensaver, taskbar or desktop and lets you set up various alarms and run
programs from triggers.
Of course if you want it to do 'everything' then it uses a little system
resource, but it is good value-for-money.
Free download from: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ .
The only snag - it only work under Windoze. If you use Linux or BeOS then
you'll have to write your own, or wait for me !
Kevin.

Thanks!

Strangely, it seems my WD Hard Drives don't have a temperature monitor.