Description:

UCSC SMART suite controls and monitors storage devices uning the
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.)
build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used to check the
reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures. The suite
contents two utilities, smartctl is a command line utility designed to
perform simple S.M.A.R.T. tasks. And smartd is a daemon that
periodically monitors smart status and reports errors to syslog.