[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

On Tuesday, 18 September 2012 at 08:27:31 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> Regarding HDDs, I've sworn I will *never* run a main system 
> again
> without a GOOD always-on SMART monitor like Hard Disk Sentinel
> <http://www.hdsentinel.com/>. In fact, that's one of the main 
> reasons I
> haven't switched my primary OS from Win to Linux yet, because I 
> can't
> find a good Linux SMART monitor. (Manually running a CLI program
> - or writing a script to do it - doesn't even remotely count.) 
> Oooh!
> Actually, now that I've looked up that link, it looks like they 
> do
> have an early Linux version now. Awesome, I'm gonna have to try 
> that
> out.

I do believe conky can provide SMART monitoring.
http://conky.sourceforge.net/

Although periodically running GSmartCtl (GUI front-end to the 
command line tool) isn't a bad idea, either, to see the specific 
details (spin-ups, heat stress, etc) and/or execute the drive's 
self-test.