Gentoo: USB hard drives with SMART

Suggested by Webmaster on Friday May 08, 2009

A common way to check the health state of a hard disk is SMART. It gives various informations about occuring errors. In Linux, there's the smartmontools package containing tools to read SMART data of hard drives (smartctl -a /dev/[hddevice] gives you a bunch of information).

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