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Install an enhanced SMART monitoring package
Authored by: MartySells on May 19, '06 09:48:11AM

I was just playing with this the other day on a linux box to go through all my old hard disks. A few notes:

1. Some drives incorrectly report power on hours as minutes. If you get the latest version then the tools should be know about this in the database.

2. Some vendors SMART implementation is broken and the power on times have too few bits of resolution. The counter reests itself around at 1000 hours. Check the docs for more info.

3. You can get your serial number from the drive. This is very handy to create an inventory of your disks especially if you have multiple identical drives.

-m



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