Now, to your left under “Local Storage”, choose your HDD and then to your right-side you’ll see a button called “Smart Data”.ĥ. Then you should see a window a bit similar to the first image shown above.Ĥ. Or just open your Terminal window (or press ‘Alt’ + ‘F2’) and put the below command and press the Enter key (both methods should work).ģ. Just press “Windows key” (in Unity desktop) and simply put the below text and click on its icon.Ģ. There are few users available in Ubuntu but Ubuntu actually comes with a disk utility (GUI) of its own that we can use to perform these S.M.A.R.T tests with ease.ġ. Other than letting the HDD to inform us when something bad is about to happen, there are tools that we can use to perform these tests manually to check for the health of the HDD. This “health check” is performed by the HDD itself by using various read & write methods, spin up/down tests etc. On most occasions, it should be able to notify you just before something bad is about to happen (don’t count on it though… taking backups is still the king). S.M.A.R.T (Self-monitoring analysis and reporting) is a fail safe technology that’s built into newer hard disk drives that has the ability to monitor the drive and give feed-back about its health.
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