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Using smartctl to get information about your Hard Disk

smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into any 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 smartctl is compatible with ATA/ATAPI-7 and earlier standards

# smartctl -i /dev/sda

smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: HITACHI Travelstar DK23XX/DK23XXB series
Device Model: HITACHI_DK23EB-40
Serial Number: 446278
Firmware Version: 00K0A0C0
User Capacity: 40,007,761,920 bytes
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 5
ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 3
Local Time is: Tue Mar 30 21:06:49 2010 IST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

EXAMPLES

smartctl -a /dev/hda

Print all SMART information for drive /dev/hda (Primary Master).

smartctl -s off /dev/hdd

Disable SMART on drive /dev/hdd (Secondary Slave).