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SMART Testing

smartctl

USB Hard Drives

Add -d sat

For some seagate hard drives, it will run in uas mode and smart won't work.
See https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SAT-with-UAS-Linux.
To fix this, you can find your id by looking in /var/log/kern.log and filling in:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="usb_storage.quirks=0bc2:[id]:u"

Multiple hard drives should be comma separated:
- E.g. 0bc2:abcd:u,0bc2:efgh:u
0bc2 is the manufacturer id for Seagate drives.

Remote monitoring

See Reference

Install the following:

sudo apt install mailutils msmtp msmtp-mta smartmontools

Edit /etc/smartd.conf
Add some options

See smartd.conf reference

Example:

/dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_easystore_264D_394B47573334314C-0:0 -s (S/../../6/01) -a -m [email protected] -M test -M daily

-a turns on some defaults for checking smart attributes
-M Test sends a test email when smartd starts
-M daily sends daily reminders for failures
-s (S/../../6/01) runs a short test every saturday at 1AM.

gsmartcontrol

gsmartcontrol is a GUI frontend for smartctl

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 See [https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-configure-smartd-and-be-notified-of-hard-disk-problems-via-email#h3-using-msmtp-for-external-email-notifications Reference]
+# Install the following:
+#*<pre>
+#*:sudo apt install mailutils msmtp msmtp-mta smartmontools
+#*:</pre>
 # Edit <code>/etc/smartd.conf</code>
 # Add some options