How to check drive health

[Preston Hagar]

I highly recommend HD Sentinel.  The Linux client is free:

http://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php

Here is a good description of why it improves on simply reading SMART data:

http://www.hdsentinel.com/smart/index.php


In general though, if you want to check the SMART data

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX

where /dev/sdX is the hard drive you want to check.



Preston


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a laptop that dual boots Xubuntu 12.04.  Windows says it has
> detected a drive error and keeps prompting me to take a backup.  It's
> backup software does not seem to like my 2TB backup disks, and I
> wouldn't really trust it anyway, so I've taken full backups with
> Xubuntu.  Windows of course has no idea I've done that and keeps
> bugging me.  Too bad that I need it at all.
>
> However, I'd like to check on the status of the drive but I don't seem
> to have any utilities that will report the SMART information.  Or I
> don't know their names.
>
> What should I be running / installing?
>
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