Vincent Danen has some tips for using the smartmontools package to obtain important information about the health of your hard drives that could provide early warning signs of problems. Vincent Danen ...

SSD health can be a confusing metric, and many people refer to entirely different things when discussing it. But did you know that your NVMe SSD has a real error log ...

I know that variation in how hard drive manufacturers report data makes interpreting smartctl output an inexact science. However, I am curious if this hard drive has seen 96°C, or if it's just telling ...

I'm trying to get my drives temperature from the command line. This is working fine "smartctl -A /dev/hda" but I would like the output to only be the value for temperature. Is there any way to probe a ...

It's a given that all disks eventually die, and it's easy to see why. The platters in a modern disk drive rotate more than a hundred times per second, maintaining submicron tolerances between the disk ...

Do you use Linux machines in your data center? If so, it’s probably a good idea to regularly check the health of the SSD drives used on those machines. Here’s how to do it. If your data center makes ...