On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Doug sweet...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
Just lost a 500 GB 2.5 inch SATA drive made in Thailand from my Mac
Mini server. A half hour to boot was the signal. While I could have
set up RAID, all the data I care about is in a Dropbox folder, and I
have Time Machine
You should be able to setup smartmontools to run as a crown job to check
the drive and send an email if it finds issues. I'm sure there is a free
version available for osx. I'm not sure what other options are available
for osx. However as has been stated smart is far from fool proof. But its
Doug wrote:
Thinking about the future, does anyone regularly monitor their hard
disk SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology)
information?
Yes, I use smartmontools on all systems. (I don't own anything that runs
OS X, so I can't comment on its use on that platform.)
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Jason Normand wrote:
You should be able to setup smartmontools to run as a crown job to check
the drive and send an email if it finds issues. I'm sure there is a free
version available for osx. I'm not sure what other options are available
for osx. However as has been
