Disk monitoring : smartd

SMARTD(8)                         2008/03/10                         SMARTD(8)

NAME
       smartd - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon

SYNOPSIS
       smartd [options]

FULL PATH
       /usr/sbin/smartd

PACKAGE VERSION
       smartmontools-5.38 released 2008/03/10 at 10:44:07 GMT

DESCRIPTION
       smartd  is  a  daemon  that  monitors the 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  drive self-tests.  This version of smartd is
       compatible with  ATA/ATAPI-7  and  earlier  standards  (see  REFERENCES
       below).