S.M.A.R.T Monitoring

Hi,

I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you
guys use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs
of values such as temperature and I was wonering how this was obtained.

The WD Data Lifeguard tools can't do this at all.

Thanks,

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SharkBoy

Shark Boy wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you
| guys use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs
| of values such as temperature and I was wonering how this was
| obtained.
|
| The WD Data Lifeguard tools can't do this at all.

Motherboard Monitor (MBM 5) can manage this for you.
It is basically for collecting and displaying m/board status, but can be
configured to work with the SMART info from HDDs.
It can share the info around a network, log it to a file, display it on a
screensaver, taskbar or desktop and lets you set up various alarms and run
programs from triggers.
Of course if you want it to do 'everything' then it uses a little system
resource, but it is good value-for-money.
Free download from: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ .
The only snag - it only work under Windoze. If you use Linux or BeOS then
you'll have to write your own, or wait for me !
Kevin.

"Shark Boy" wrote in message
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" I've got two Western Digital hard drives and I'm wondering what you guys
use to monitor your hard drives S.M.A.R.T status. I've seen logs of values
such as temperature and I was wonering how this was obtained. "


http://mbm.livewiredev.com/

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:15:53 +0000, Kevin Lawton wrote:

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Motherboard Monitor (MBM 5) can manage this for you.
It is basically for collecting and displaying m/board status, but can be
configured to work with the SMART info from HDDs.
It can share the info around a network, log it to a file, display it on a
screensaver, taskbar or desktop and lets you set up various alarms and run
programs from triggers.
Of course if you want it to do 'everything' then it uses a little system
resource, but it is good value-for-money.
Free download from: http://mbm.livewiredev.com/ .
The only snag - it only work under Windoze. If you use Linux or BeOS then
you'll have to write your own, or wait for me !
Kevin.

Thanks!

Strangely, it seems my WD Hard Drives don't have a temperature monitor.

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Shark Boy