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How do I test if my Linux server SCSI / SATA hard disk going bad?

by Vivek Gite

One of our regular sends us a question:
How can I test if my hard disk is going bad? I see few errors in /var/log/messages file.
I/O errors in /var/log/messages indicates that something is wrong with the hard disk and it may be failing.
Next thing is check hard disk for error using smartctl command, which is control [...]

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Monitoring hard disk health with smartd under Linux or UNIX operating systems

by nixcraft

smartd is SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon for Linux. SMART is acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of [...]

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