Comment on Recommended hard drive monitoring (Ubuntu server) options?

easeKItMAn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• UFO64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So just as an FYI to those who trust these sorts of things, SMART technology is a self reporting thing. The hard drive is more than capable of lying to the data in that system if it protects the manufacture from responsibility of replacing faulty drives. Whats more, it’s actually pretty rare that SMART reports and issue before the drive just sorta… dies someway or another.

  It’s not useless technology, but it’s pretty damn close. I don’t even both with any of my setups. I test it by monitoring if the server has issues reading/writing. SMART wont tell me anything before that will.

  Source: Was a firmware engineer on hard drives for 10 years.

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  • easeKItMAn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    SMART value monitoring helped me finding faulty drives, not only once. And drives are tested before adding to a production system.
    Certainly system drives are separate from data drives. The latter can be perfectly monitored by SMART values.

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  • Shrek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay, but how do you monitor the issues with reading and writing?

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