{{{ #!div style="border: 1pt solid; float:right; padding:10px; background-color: #E6E6FA; margin-left:30px;" '''Menu'''[[BR]] [[BR]] [wiki:Download Download Instructions][[BR]] [wiki:TocDoc Documentation][[BR]] [wiki:Help][[BR]] [wiki:TocSupport Device Support][[BR]] [wiki:TocDeveloper Developers Area][[BR]] [wiki:Links] }}} = Recommended Links = [[PageOutline(4,Table of Contents, inline)]] ---- ==== Graphical user interfaces for smartctl ==== [http://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/About GSmartControl] (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows)[[BR]] [http://code.google.com/p/hddguardian/ HDD Guardian] (Windows)[[BR]] ---- ==== Monitoring tools working with smartmontools ==== [http://munin-monitoring.org/ Munin][[BR]] ---- ==== Other projects using smartmontools ==== [http://www.netpower.fr/smartmontools Smartmontools for Windows Package] (alternative smartmontools installation package for Windows)[[BR]] ---- ==== Other open source hard disk monitoring projects ==== [http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html CrystalDiskInfo] (Windows)[[BR]] [http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/being-smart.html libatasmart, skdump, sktest] (Linux) ---- ==== HDD/SSD References ==== [http://www.johnnylucky.org/data-storage/ssd-database.html Johnny Lucky Solid State Drive Database][[BR]] ---- ==== Studies / Background info ==== [http://blog.backblaze.com/2013/11/12/how-long-do-disk-drives-last/ How long do disk drives last?], Brian Beach, Blackblaze Blog, November 2013.[[BR]] [http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2385276 Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive], Michael Cornwell (Pure Storage) in ''ACM Queue vol 10, no 10'', October 2012.[[BR]] [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9073158/Vendor_disk_failure_rates_Myth_or_metric_ Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?], Mary Brandel in ''Computerworld'', April 2008.[[BR]] [http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1317403 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]] [http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/194645en Playing it SMART], Seagate FAQ[[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 [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], June 2001.[[BR]] [http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/smart/tech_papr/SmtPapTransReliFinalWeb.pdf Improved Disk-Drive Failure Warnings], September 2002. ---- ==== Useful references on SMART ==== [http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/ Zbigniew Chlondowski's SMART Information Site.][[BR]] This includes a useful list of [http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/smart/attributes.php Attributes and their meanings]. ---- ==== ATA/ATAPI References ==== The [http://www.t13.org homepage of the T13 project].[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d2008r7b-ATA-3.pdf ATA-3 revision 7b (working draft)], January 1997 (last specification of SMART Attributes and Thresholds, removed before final standard was published!).[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1153r18-ATA-ATAPI-4.pdf ATA/ATAPI-4 revision 18 (final draft)], August 1998 (SMART Attributes and Thresholds no longer specified).[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1321r3-ATA-ATAPI-5.pdf ATA/ATAPI-5 revision 3 (final draft)], February 2000.[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/project/d1410r3b-ATA-ATAPI-6.pdf ATA/ATAPI-6 revision 3b (final draft)], February 2002.[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v1r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_1.pdf ATA/ATAPI-7 revision 4b (final draft) Volume 1] (has SMART documentation), [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v2r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_2.pdf Volume 2], [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2007/D1532v3r4b-AT_Attachment_with_Packet_Interface_-_7_Volume_3.pdf Volume 3], April 2004.[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/D1699r6a-ATA8-ACS.pdf ATA/ATAPI-8 Command Set (ACS) revision 6a (final draft)], September 2008.[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05148r0-ACS-SMARTAttributesAnnex.pdf ATA/ATAPI-8 SMART Attribute Annex (proposal)], September 2005 (later split into: [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05171r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Overview.pdf Overview], [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05172r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_Assignment.pdf Assignment], [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2005/e05173r0-ACS-SMARTAttributes_List.pdf List], not included in the standard!).[[BR]] [http://www.t13.org/Documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2010/d2015r3-ATAATAPI_Command_Set_-_2_ACS-2.pdf ATA/ATAPI Command Set - 2 (ACS-2) revision 3 (working draft)], June 2011.[[BR]] See also other subdirectories [ftp://ftp.t10.org/t13/ here]. ---- ==== SCSI References ==== The [http://www.t10.org homepage of the T10 project].[[BR]] The [ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/s2/ SCSI-2 draft] and other documents by the T10 project are no longer publicy available.[[BR]] ---- ==== The original SMART specification ==== The original SMART specification is SFF-8035i from the [http://www.sffcommittee.com/ns/ Small Form Factors (SFF) Committee].[[BR]] Here is the [ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/INF-8035.TXT SFF "link"] (they have [ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8000.TXT "expired" ] the document).[[BR]] [http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./SFF-8035i.pdf SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)" version 1.0], May 1995.[[BR]] [http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8035R2_0.PDF SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)" revision 2.0], April 1996.[[BR]] [http://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/S.M.A.R.T./8055.PDF SFF-8055i "S.M.A.R.T. Applications Guide for the ATA and SCSI Interfaces" revision 1.4], June 1996.