Description:

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) was
developed to monitor and attempt to detect hard drive failures. It uses added
intelligence in the hard drive firmware to sense minor changes in the drive
which usually lead to failures. One white paper claims that SMART can detect
70% of drive predictable drive failures. This projects goal is to allow Linux
users the ability to monitor their S.M.A.R.T. capable hard drives thus,
indirectly improving user reliability. UCSC SMART Suite contains a command
utility and daemon to access S.M.A.R.T. data on ATA and SCSI hard disk drives.