Description:

The smartmontools package contains tools to control and monitor
storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI
hard disks. 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 S.M.A.R.T.
status and reports errors to syslog. Currently this package includes
support for ATA/ATAPI-5 disks. It's intended to incorporate as much
"vendor specific" and "reserved" information as possible about disk
drives.