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Recommended Links ¶
Table of Contents
- Graphical user interfaces for smartctl
- Monitoring tools working with smartmontools
- Other projects using smartmontools
- Other HDD/SSD related open source projects
- HDD/SSD References
- Studies / Background info
- Useful references on SMART
- ATA/ATAPI References
- SCSI References
- The original SMART specification
Graphical user interfaces for smartctl ¶
GSmartControl (C++, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, Windows)
HDD Guardian (VB.NET, Windows)
DriveDx (OS X, Commercial)
Monitoring tools working with smartmontools ¶
Munin
Nagios plugins
SMART Attributes Monitoring Plugin
Other projects using smartmontools ¶
Smartmontools for Windows Package (alternative smartmontools installation package for Windows)
pySMART - a simple Python wrapper for the smartctl component of smartmontools.
Other HDD/SSD related open source projects ¶
CrystalDiskInfo (C++, Windows)
libatasmart, skdump, sktest (C, Linux)
hdparm (C, Linux, the Windows port is no longer maintained)
Naraeon NVMe Tools and SSD Tools (Delphi, Windows)
trimcheck (D, Windows)
OS X SAT SMART Driver - kernel driver for Mac OS X external USB or FireWire drives.
HDD/SSD References ¶
Johnny Lucky Solid State Drive Database
Studies / Background info ¶
Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015
(Q3,
Q2,
Q1,
2014)
Andy Klein in Backblaze Blog, January 2015 - February 2016.
got HW crypto? On the (in)security of a Self-Encrypting Drive series, Gunnar Alendal, Christian Kison, modg, September 2015.
The SSD Endurance Experiment:
22TB,
200TB,
300TB,
500TB,
600TB,
1PB,
1.5PB,
2PB,
They're all dead,
Geoff Gasior in The Tech Report, August 2013 - March 2015.
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.
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.
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.
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, January 2000.
Useful references on SMART ¶
Wikipedia articles about SMART:
English, Deutsch, Español, Français,
Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Polski,
Português, Russian, Slovenčina, Svenska
Zbigniew Chlondowski's SMART Information Site (no longer maintained)
ATA/ATAPI References ¶
The homepage of the T13 project.
ATA-3 revision 7b (working draft), January 1997 (last specification of SMART Attributes and Thresholds, removed before final standard was published!).
ATA/ATAPI-4 revision 18 (final draft), August 1998 (SMART Attributes and Thresholds no longer specified).
ATA/ATAPI-5 revision 3 (final draft), February 2000.
ATA/ATAPI-6 revision 3b (final draft), February 2002.
ATA/ATAPI-7 revision 4b (final draft) Volume 1 (has SMART documentation), Volume 2, Volume 3, April 2004.
ATA/ATAPI-8 Command Set (ACS) revision 6a (final draft), September 2008.
ATA/ATAPI-8 SMART Attribute Annex (proposal), September 2005 (later split into: Overview, Assignment, List, not included in the standard!).
ATA/ATAPI Command Set - 2 (ACS-2) revision 3 (working draft), June 2011.
SCSI References ¶
The homepage of the T10 project.
The SCSI drafts 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.
