sunrat Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Just found a neat little GUI utility to monitor the health of hard drives as reported by SMART - GSmartControl - http://gsmartcontrol...dex.php/en/Home Available in Debian repo and probably yours too. My old 320GB drive reports 44060 hrs power on time and 763 reallocated sectors. Warning! Imminent failure! It's been reporting its imminent death for over a year. Only a data drive with everything backed up so I'll see how long it lasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Very nice!! All of my hardrives passed the basic health check even though one is like 5 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Nice find. I do have a couple of drives that need looking at and this will help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Well I did a check on my running drives. All Samsung F3's. The first two shots are 500 GB F3's short stroked to 150 GB in Raid 0 with Windows 7 which is only used for gaming. This last shot is a 500 GB F3 that I use for Arch and is my daily use drive. As you can see all drives show some errors. I ran a short self test on all drives and they all passed. So it seems the errors are just normal wear and tear and I still have a lot of life left in the drives. I do not really understand all the results. I would have expected the Arch drive to show higher use figures as it is used more but that does not seem to be the case. Oh well that is just another geeky thing that me poor old barbarian brain does not see.No problem, they switch on, they work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 It's the Raw Value and error type that give the most instant assessment: I always used smartmontools on the command line before, but GSmartControl saves having to remember which options to feed it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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