Hard Disk Health Checker

[morbidbutterfly]

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from Smartmontools package), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk drives. It allows you to inspect the drive’s SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

 

http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/Downloads

[duanester]

morbid, i cant load that link

[morbidbutterfly]

morbid, i cant load that link

 

I just tried it and it worked for me.

 

Morbidbutterfly

[duanester]

i will be the first to test this application and evaluate its usefulness

 

this application could detect a drive on its way to hard drive heaven, the short self test didn't take long.

 

my output

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:	 Western Digital Raptor family
Device Model:	 WDC WD740GD-00FLC0
Serial Number:	WD-WMAKE2398597
Firmware Version: 33.08F33
User Capacity:	74,355,769,344 bytes
Device is:		In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:	Thu Nov  6 19:45:09 2008 EST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x85)	Offline data collection activity
					was aborted by an interrupting command from host.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:	  (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		 (1719) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:			(0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:		(0x01)	Error logging supported.
					No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time: 	 (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (  30) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 		   (0x001f)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME		  FLAG	 VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE	  UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate	 0x000b   200   200   051	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   0
  3 Spin_Up_Time			 0x0007   113   110   021	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   4891
  4 Start_Stop_Count		0x0032   100   100   040	Old_age   Always	   -	   769
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate		 0x000b   100   253   051	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   0
  9 Power_On_Hours		  0x0032   091   091   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   6623
 10 Spin_Retry_Count		0x0013   100   100   051	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013   100   100   051	Pre-fail  Always	   -	   0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count	   0x0032   100   100   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   769
194 Temperature_Celsius	 0x0022   113   097   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   37
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   200   200   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count	0x000a   200   253   000	Old_age   Always	   -	   1
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   200   179   051	Pre-fail  Offline	  -	   0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description	Status				  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline	   Completed without error	   00%		70		 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
	1		0		0  Not_testing
	2		0		0  Not_testing
	3		0		0  Not_testing
	4		0		0  Not_testing
	5		0		0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

not a bad application, a needed tool

Edited November 7, 2008 by duanester

[namida12]

Looking at the screenshots on the webpage this appears to be similar to the S.M.A.R.T. test in the windows only Speedfan software. Speedfan has a online data base that would be good to use in comparison...

 

Thanks for sharing this information...

 

JR