[[PageOutline(1-4,Table of Contents)]] = Recommended Links = ==== Monitoring tools working with smartmontools ==== [http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ Munin][[BR]] [http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/About GSmartControl] ==== Other open source hard disk monitoring projects ==== [http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html CrystalDiskInfo] ==== Studies / Background on reliability ==== [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9073158 Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?], Mary Brandel in ''Computerworld'', April 2008.[[BR]] [http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=506 Hard Disk Drives: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly], Jon Elerath (Network Appliance) in ''ACM Queue vol 5, no 6'', pg 28-37, September 2007.[[BR]] * From the USENIX FAST Conferences [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast08/tech/full_papers/jiang/jiang_html/index.html Are Disks the Dominant Contributor for Storage Failures? A Comprehensive Study of Storage Subsystem Failure Characteristics], Weihang Jiang, Chongfeng Hu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Arkady Kanevsky in ''6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '08)'', pg 111-125, February 2008. [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html Disk Failures in the Real World: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?], Bianca Schroeder, Garth A. Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) in ''5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)'', pg 1-16, February 2007. [http://www.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/full_papers/pinheiro/pinheiro_html/index.html Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population], Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso (Google Inc.) in ''5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '07)'', pg 17-28, February 2007. ''Specifying Reliability in the Disk Drive Industry: No More MTBF's'', Jon G. Elerath (IBM Storage Systems Division)[[BR]] in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00. * From the Seagate Corporation [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/enhanced_smart.pdf Enhanced SMART - Get SMART For Reliability][[BR]] [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/smart_u8.pdf Playing it SMART] ( [http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/smart.html HTML Version] )[[BR]] [http://www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/whitepaper/Enhanced_DST_Tech_Paper.pdf Enhanced Drive Self-Test][[BR]] * From the [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/ UCSD SMART Project] [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/HamerlySmartPaper.pdf Bayesian Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives][[BR]] [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf Improved Disk-Drive Failure Warnings] {{{ #!html
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