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Recommended Links
Table of Contents
- Graphical user interfaces for smartctl
- Monitoring tools working with smartmontools
- Other open source hard disk monitoring projects
- Studies / Background info
- Useful references on SMART and the ATA/ATAPI standards
- SCSI References
- The original SMART specification
Graphical user interfaces for smartctl
GSmartControl (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows)
HDD Guardian (Windows)
Monitoring tools working with smartmontools
Other open source hard disk monitoring projects
CrystalDiskInfo (Windows)
libatasmart, skdump, sktest (Linux)
Studies / Background info
Anatomy of a Solid-state Drive,
Michael Cornwell (Pure Storage) in ACM Queue vol 10, no 10, October 2012.
Vendor disk failure rates: Myth or metric?,
Mary Brandel in Computerworld, April 2008.
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.
Playing it SMART, Seagate FAQ
- From the USENIX FAST Conferences
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.
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.
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)
in Proceedings of the IEEE 2000 Annual Reliability and Maintainability
Symposium, pg 194, 0-7803-5848-1/00/$10.00.
- From the UCSD SMART Project
Bayesian Approaches to Failure Prediction for Disk Drives, June 2001
Improved Disk-Drive Failure Warnings, September 2002
Useful references on SMART and the ATA/ATAPI standards
Zbigniew Chlondowski's SMART Information Site.
This includes a useful list of Attributes and their meanings.
The homepage of the T13 project.
The ATA-3 revision 7b (working draft) (last specification of SMART Attributes and Thresholds, removed before final standard was published!)
The ATA/ATAPI-4 revision 18 (final draft) (SMART Attributes and Thresholds no longer specified)
The ATA/ATAPI-5 revision 3 (final draft) (start with Section 8.41)
The ATA/ATAPI-6 revision 3b (final draft)
The ATA/ATAPI-7 revision 4b (final draft) Volume 1 (has SMART documentation), Volume 2, Volume 3
The ATA/ATAPI-8 Command Set (ACS) revision 6a (final draft)
The ATA/ATAPI-8 SMART Attribute Annex (proposal) (later split into 3 parts: Overview, Assignment, List, not included in the standard!)
The ATA/ATAPI Command Set - 2 (ACS-2) revision 3 (working draft)
See also other subdirectories here.
SCSI References
The homepage of the T10 project.
The SCSI-2 draft and other documents by the T10 project are no longer publicy available.
The original SMART specification
The original SMART specification is SFF-8035i from the Small Form Factors (SFF) Committee.
Here is the SFF "link" (they have "expired" the document).
SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)" version 1.0, May 1995.
SFF-8035i "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)" revision 2.0, April 1996.
SFF-8055i "S.M.A.R.T. Applications Guide for the ATA and SCSI Interfaces" revision 1.4, June 1996.
