SMART Monitoring - CGSecurity /**/ var skin = "monobook"; var stylepath = "/mw/skins"; var wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; var wgScriptPath = "/mw"; var wgServer = "http://www.cgsecurity.org"; var wgCanonicalNamespace = ""; var wgNamespaceNumber = 0; var wgPageName = "SMART_Monitoring"; var wgTitle = "SMART Monitoring"; var wgArticleId = 1320; var wgIsArticle = true; var wgUserName = null; var wgUserLanguage = "en"; var wgContentLanguage = "en"; /**/ SMART Monitoring From CGSecurity Jump to: navigation, search It is possible to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In the hope of anticipating failures, SMART monitors and reports on various indicators of reliability including temperature, number of reallocated sectors and seek errors. Some advices: Enable SMART monitoring in your BIOS setup. With SMART enabled, if a write operation failed, bad sectors are taken out of service and the data is immediately written to a spare sector. In other words, the bad sector is 'reallocated'. Use a software to report SMART information, this way you get early detection of physical problems smartmontools â€" open-source for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Darwin, OS/2. SMARTReporter â€" open-source for Apple Macintosh If your harddisk is connected via USB or FireWire, SMART status may not be reported, if it's the case, prefer direct connexion like IDE, SCSI, SATA... Return to TestDisk main page Category: Data Recovery if (window.isMSIE55) fixalpha(); Data Recovery TestDisk PhotoRec download This page was last modified 07:54, 14 March 2006. Content is available under GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();