[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:22:50 +0200
"Chris Nicholson-Sauls" <ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

See, that's the problem though. A SMART tool that needs to be
periodically run manually is next to pointless. I expect a SMART
monitor to *always* be running and *actively* notify me when something
starts going downhill.

Naturally, that's not a substitute for actually looking at the stats
now and then, but the "always-on, active notification" is a MUST.