June 2025
Beginner to intermediate
1180 pages
37h 48m
English
SMART is a feature of almost all commercially available hard disks and SSDs. Thanks to SMART, various parameters of the data carrier are saved regularly. These parameters allow you to draw conclusions about possible defects of the hard disk and its expected lifetime.
The SMART parameters can be read via a special interface. Regular monitoring of the parameters by the operating system is a kind of early warning system. This section provides an overview of the tools available on Linux for reading the SMART parameters.
Ideally, thanks to SMART, you will be informed in good time before a disk fails. However, studies have shown that this rarely works in practice, neither ...
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