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Below describes how you can check the SMART status of drives in linux (debian/ubuntu).  Useful for monitoring status and knowing about potential hard drive failures.

Install smartmontools

sudo apt-get install smartmontools --no-install-recommends

Note: the --no-install-recommends stops from installing postfix (which isn't needed for just checking smart status).

Use smartmontools

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda > smart-results.txt

Note: the above saves results to a text file.

References

  1. https://askubuntu.com/questions/528072/how-can-i-check-the-smart-status-of-a-ssd-or-hdd-on-current-versions-of-ubuntu-1