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tocomment on Sept 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: RAID's Days May Be Numbered

Dumb question here, how do I get at the smart readings? How will I know if it's warning me? I'd like to know for Ubuntu and for Windows XP.

spydez on Sept 18, 2009 | [–]

In Google's whitepaper on hard drives a while back, they showed that, basically, SMART is useless.

So, take SMART your data with grains of salt and all that.

thwarted on Sept 18, 2009 | [–]

"man smartctl" is the place to start.

I don't know how to do it on Windows. There's probably a GUI. Although it seems that smartmontools has Windows support.

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