SMARTmontools controls and monitors storage devices using the
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.)
built into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives.  This is used to check the
reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive failures.

The suite is derived from the smartsuite package, and contains two
utilities.  The first, smartctl, is a command line utility designed to
perform simple S.M.A.R.T. tasks.  The second, smartd, is a daemon that
periodically monitors smart status and reports errors to syslog.  The
package is compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-5 specification.  Future
releases will be compatible with the ATA/ATAPI-6 and ATA/ATAPI-7
specifications.  The package is intended to incorporate as much "vendor
specific" and "reserved" information as possible about disk drives.  man
smartctl and man smartd will provide more information.

• Alexey Borovskoy
• Sergey Vlasov

• smartmontools