Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or SMART is a feature on a computer’s hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of disk reliability. If SMART is enabled on a hard disk, ...

What's so smart about SSDs? Plenty. Here's what you need to know when deploying them in your VMware virtualization practice. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to introduce SSDs or other ...

SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept -- it's meant to tell you if a hard drive is about to die -- but in practice, I think we can all ...

I'd like a 2nd pair of eyes to look these over. I think the SMART attributes are suggesting a disk failure. Certainly the server that it boots is freaking out badly and indicating file system problems ...

I'm in the process of reanimating our home server on nas4free. The system has 2 WD Red 4.0 TB drives currently, which I've added/formatted and I've been basically just letting soak for a few days ...

Using smartctl to get SMART status information on your hard drives Your email has been sent Vincent Danen has some tips for using the smartmontools package to obtain important information about the ...

It's a given that all disks eventually die, and it's easy to see why. The platters in a modern disk drive rotate more than a hundred times per second, maintaining submicron tolerances between the disk ...

A few years ago, I covered SMARTReporter, a simple, free utility for monitoring your drives’ Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) status. As I explained at the time, SMART is ...

SMART, which first started to appear in consumer hard drives about 10 years ago, is a brilliant concept -- it's meant to tell you if a hard drive is about to die -- but in practice, I think we can all ...