Comment on Recommended hard drive monitoring (Ubuntu server) options?
easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you want regular automatic hdd checks and don’t need a WebUI I recommend (smartontools)[github.com/smartmontools]
Comment on Recommended hard drive monitoring (Ubuntu server) options?
easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you want regular automatic hdd checks and don’t need a WebUI I recommend (smartontools)[github.com/smartmontools]
UFO64@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
easeKItMAn@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Shrek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Okay, but how do you monitor the issues with reading and writing?