SMART is a monitoring system built into modern hard-drives which monitors various factors that may affect drive reliability, such as read/write errors, bad sectors, high temperature, etc. When these factors exceed a certain value, SMART can predict that the drive is about to fail, and warns the user in time (to hopefully back up and replace). You can check SMART on Ubuntu with Disk Utility or with the smartmontools package.
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Hard Drive Load Cycle Count
Does the load cycle count shown below, using SMART, show the total count of the hard drives lifetime? What is the maximum count?
Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always - 39246
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Install smartmontools 6.2 on Ubuntu 12.04?
Ubuntu 12.04 provides via apt-get smartmontools (smartctl) 5.41 (released 2011-06-09).
The latest version of smartmontools is 6.2 and the package for this is available with 14.04.
Is there any reason why I should not install the 6.2 package under…
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'Disks' app can't remember disabling SMART check
I have a secondary drive (a HDD) that has a SMART flag on for "imminent catastrophe". I just want to keep there dup info from external drivers (never new files) because it says that since some years ago, but has no bad sectors ever. However, I have…
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