smartmon tools http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki
and atacontrol http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atacontrol&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE&format=html among others, provide most if perhaps not all of that functionality. You do have to choose your hardware, but Dell is on the short list. On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 18:22, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > Integrated drives and controllers will alert you to impending hardware > failure at a level that the file system cannot. > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > > On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> zfs is looking better all the time... >> >> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 17:42, Jonathan Link <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I'm with ASB on this one. >> > Although, I have a SAN, and my drives are even more expensive, so... >> > >> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Phil Brutsche <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Not $300 RAID firmware, but $300 certifying the firmware to guarantee >> >> it >> >> will work right with the RAID controller :( >> >> >> >> On 3/19/2010 7:03 PM, Erik Goldoff wrote: >> >> > But $300 RAID Firmware : ( >> >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
