On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 08:27:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Regarding HDDs, I've sworn I will *never* run a main system
again
without a GOOD always-on SMART monitor like Hard Disk Sentinel
<http://www.hdsentinel.com/>. In fact, that's one of the main
reasons I
haven't switched my primary OS from Win to Linux yet, because I
can't
find a good Linux SMART monitor. (Manually running a CLI program
- or writing a script to do it - doesn't even remotely count.)
Oooh!
Actually, now that I've looked up that link, it looks like they
do
have an early Linux version now. Awesome, I'm gonna have to try
that
out.
I do believe conky can provide SMART monitoring.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/
Although periodically running GSmartCtl (GUI front-end to the
command line tool) isn't a bad idea, either, to see the specific
details (spin-ups, heat stress, etc) and/or execute the drive's
self-test.
