I am aware that the current standard method of drive redundancy and backups would be a better solution, but I would be interested if there was a software that could be installed on workstation computers that could monitor hard drive health and give a warning if the drive looks like a failure is imminent. I have tried hdd health but it does not give me very useful information. I am not interested in drive space, just want a heads up before a drive failure. Anyone know anything like this?
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The standard mechanism for hard drive health reporting is called SMART. This Google Labs Report (PDF) makes a strong case that the SMART data is mostly worthless.
'hdd health' probably extracts SMART data from drives, that's what all other hard drive health tools do as far as I know.
Thus I believe the only effective way to guard against drive failure remains the use of redundant drives.
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