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S.M.A.R.T.
The second window displays the working status of individual disk drives, including model
name, capacity, S.M.A.R.T., state, and temperature.
S.M.A.R.T. is short for
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology
. S.M.A.R.T.
provides near-term failure prediction that monitors pre-determined disk drive attributes
that are susceptible to degradation over time. Predictions are limited to the attributes
implemented by the HDD manufacturers.
Although attributes are drive specific, a variety of typical characteristics can be identified,
for example:
Head flying height, Data throughput performance, Spin-up time, re-allocated sector count,
seek error rate, seek time, spin try recount, and drive calibration retry count, etc.
Disk Temperature Monitor
Depending on the ambient temperature of your work environment, you can manually
specify an upper threshold for all disk drives in your chassis. If the upper threshold is
violated, event messages will be delivered to the administrator.
