Archive for 'Smartmontools'

Using smartd on Solaris systems to proactively find disk drive problems

In my article Out S.M.A.R.T your hard drive, I talked about how smartctl can be used to monitor the SMART attributes in modern disk drives. One item I didn’t cover was smartd. This nifty little daemon can be used to automatically run drive self tests, check for SMART attributes that have changed, and to report [...]

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