SMART

Rick C. Petty rick-freebsd2009 at kiwi-computer.com
Thu Nov 12 21:33:22 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:44:28AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:25:12PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> > Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > 
> > >I can teach you how to decode/read SMART statistics correctly.
> > 
> > Actually, it would be good if you taught more than him :)
> > 
> > I've always wondered how important are each of the dozen or so
> > statistics and what indicates what...
> 
> I'll work on writing an actual HTML document to put up on my web site
> and will respond with the URL once I finish it.

Isn't this sufficient?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes

If not, could you make the changes on wikipedia?  This isn't a
FreeBSD-specific topic, and the larger community would benefit from such
documentation.

-- Rick C. Petty


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