Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology is a monitoring system meant to detect and report various indicators of drive statistics and parameters meant to predict imminent hardware failure and predict disk wear. smartmontools allows checking S.M.A.R.T. status of disk devices that support health reporting

#	Command	Description
1	sudo apt install smartmontools	Installs required package
2	sudo smartctl -a DEVICE_NAME	Shows information about DEVICE_NAME, for example /dev/sda or /dev/nvme0n1 or /dev/xvda
3	sudo smartctl -t short DEVICE_NAME	Starts short test of DEVICE_NAME; other types of tests are available

Last update: 2024-08-10