I know that variation in how hard drive manufacturers report data makes interpreting smartctl output an inexact science. However, I am curious if this hard drive has seen 96°C, or if it's just telling ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm trying to get my drives temperature from the command line. This is working fine "smartctl -A /dev/hda" but I would like the output to only be the value for temperature. Is there any way to probe a ...

Used Seagate hard disks can be unmasked using smartmontools, other programmers are following suit. We also have tips for Toshiba and WD hard disks. Owners of a Synology NAS can access the ...