Monitoring SMART Hard Drives

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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
 
Devang said:
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.
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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
 
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