Smartmontools

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Smartmontools
Developer(s) Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, Guido Guenther [1]
Initial release October 2002 (2002-10)
Stable release 5.42 [1] / October 20, 2011 (2011-10-20)
Written in C, C++
Operating system Unix-like (Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, others) and Microsoft Windows [1]
Size 740.4 KB
Type Hard Disk utility
License GNU GPL [1]
Website http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA and SCSI hard drives. [1]
Smartmontools provide early warning signs of problems with a hard drive, allowing a backup of data before the complete failure. [2]

From late 2010 ATA Error Recovery Control configuration has been supported by Smartmontools, allowing it to configure many desktop-class hard drives for use in a RAID array and viceversa.[3]

Most Linux distributions provide the smartmontools package.[4]

User interface

Even though smartctl and smartd come with a command-line interface, Alexander Shaduri developed GSmartControl, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for smartctl. [5]

SMART Utility is also a software for Mac OS X with a GUI based on smartmontools [6]

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b c d e "smartmontools wiki". http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  2. ^ Bruce Allen (2004-01-01). "Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  3. ^ "Error recovery control with smartmontools". http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~greg/projects/erc/. Retrieved 2011. 
  4. ^ Vincent Danen (2010-03-30). "Using smartctl to get SMART status information on your hard drives". TechRepublic. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=1389. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  5. ^ "How S.M.A.R.T. are your disks?". LinuxInsight. 2009-02-08. http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-smart-are-your-disks.html. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 
  6. ^ "SMART Utility Monitors Hard Drives' Health". PC World. 2009-10-29. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/174687/smart_utility_monitors_hard_drives_health.html. Retrieved 2010-07-26. 

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