![]() ![]() If you have multiple drives, you’ll need to use a little bit of common sense in seeing which drive the one you want to inspect, has what on it, and it’s associated listing such as /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc etc. If you are only using one drive within your machine then it’s going to list /dev/sda and its various partitions. This will give you a list of all drives and partitions. Once that is installed, we need to figure out which drive our questionable one is: Generally speaking smartmontools is available on most distributions, just install with your given package manager using the package name “smartmontools†For Arch users: sudo pacman -S smartmontools.For Ubuntu/Linux Mint users: sudo apt install smartmontools.Smartmontools was originally derived from the Linux ​smartsuite package and actually supports ATA/ATAPI/SATA-3 to -8 disks and SCSI disks and tape devices. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure. The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA/SATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe disks. The tool we are going to be using is called smartmontools (which is also available for Windows and OS X). This tutorial is done via CLI only, however, there are tools that do the job as well I will briefly cover at the end of this. This raised the thought to me that perhaps I should write a quick how-to on this procedure for the community. I’ve been using strictly Solid State Drives for a number of years now, so I admit there was always the possibility of me just having become spoiled, but I thought that perhaps I should look into the health of the drive after all, a laptop with specs like that should in my eyes run faster so better safe than sorry.
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