new hard disk

[popcorn]

does seagate has those toold for linux?:huh:

 

[amish]

SMART is harddisk standard, all harddisks are supposed to support it.

I always purchased seagate harddisks, all supported SMART.

S.M.A.R.T. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

[Sushubh]

and you have the option to disable/enable that functionality in the bios. i have never seen it in action though. i guess you have to use specialized software to access that functionality in the hard disk.

 

[amish]

i dont think its in bios.in linux u can enable/disable SMART checking with -s and -o options to smartctl.and u dont need specialised software. i do it once every 6 months.

 

[Sushubh]

oh well i was talking about windows. windows i doubt has any tool to connect to the smart technology in hard disks.

 

[popcorn]

why u have to do it in 6 months? whats the advantages?

 

[amish]

u can do once in a week, month .. or as u wish.i am lazy person to schedule it automaticallly so whenever i feel like doing it.. i do it.advantage is that u come to know if bad sectors are there on disks. u can relocate the bad sectors. u know if harddisks health is good or its failing. etc.

 

[popcorn]

whats the command in windows?

 

[Sushubh]

for some reason i do not think scandisk can connect to SMART in hard drives.

 

[amish]

nope, scandisk does disk read-writes. same stands for badblocks command in linux. SMART checking is done by harddisk itself NOT by software. (thats why u wud not see disk activity when SMART checks are being done)