Hard Drive Monitoring using S.M.A.R.T on Ubuntu

Hard drive monitoring is a crucial thing to do to measure the performance of your hard disk and to get early detection before it fails. It also can be used to let you know when to buy a new hard disk before your current hard drive fails. S.M.A.R.T has some useful function to monitor hard drives, although this feature comes with the purchase of the hard disc, but some people just can’t enable this function or even use this functionality on Ubuntu.

S.M.A.R.T HDD Monitoring

smartmontools is a hard drive monitoring tool for Ubuntu. Just by installing this free software you can see what hard drive error you’ve got using smartctl. Features are listed on the option of smartctl. One critical feature is the daemon smartd, which is very configurable via text file and is used to send notifications of various test results. The daemon smartd runs as a background service, so you might not be able to see it live on your console.

If you wanting to configure your own settings on smartmontools, just go and read sample smartd.conf from the smarttools site here.

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