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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible
to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
On Feb 3, 1:30*pm, JW wrote:
I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. Most USB interfaces do not support SMART. Michael |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:35:16 -0800 (PST) "
wrote in Message id: : On Feb 3, 1:30*pm, JW wrote: I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. Most USB interfaces do not support SMART. I'm using an Intel DP965LT motherboard which uses the ICH8, and a USB to PATA/SATA adapter. Don't know what chipset it uses, but its VID is 04FC and PID is 0C05. |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
JW wrote:
I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? Yes, it was never that absolute. I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
JW wrote:
I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. how can it take 17.5MB to monitor the smart data? Maybe they think it's a small number given the 100MB for the backup program. Sheesh!!! |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:35:16 -0800 (PST), "
put finger to keyboard and composed: On Feb 3, 1:30*pm, JW wrote: I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. Most USB interfaces do not support SMART. I believe most recent USB-SATA/PATA bridges support SMART. Here are just a few applications that implemement SMART support whenever it is available: smartmontools (Linux / Windows): http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/ http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sma.../wiki/Download HD Sentinel (DOS / Windows / Linux): http://www.hdsentinel.com/ HDDScan for Windows: http://hddscan.com/ CrystalDiskInfo: http://crystalmark.info/software/Cry...o/index-e.html http://crystalmark.info/software/Cry...ernalDisk.html - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
JW wrote:
I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? You are not. Except that it was only that there was no standardized way to do so. I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. The thing is that in the meantime a) The smartmontools and HDDSentinel have implemented a lot of vendor specific methods and others might just have copied or licesed that. b) A while ago the SCSI T13 comittee standardized a way to get ATA SMART data through the SCSI command set that USB used and vendors have started to implement that. To you rmemory is (mostly) correct, but the information is outdated. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
mike wrote:
JW wrote: I though I remember a discussion some months back where it was impossible to get SMART data from a USB attached drive. Am I mis-remembering? I Found a free Windows utility which seems to work fine called Acronis drive monitor. It also monitors your drive health and pops up when it detects problems. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...drive-monitor/ If anybody's interested. how can it take 17.5MB to monitor the smart data? Maybe they think it's a small number given the 100MB for the backup program. Sheesh!!! It is Windows-Software. To be culturally acceptable in that environment, it has to consist of 95% zeros, 4.9% hot air and 0.1% actual code. Kind of like the developers you find in that environment.... If anybody takes this personally: Of course you are in the 0.1% that actually knows what they are doing ;-) Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Getting SMART data from a USB attached drive
On 04/02/2011 12:00 AM, Arno wrote:
To you rmemory is (mostly) correct, but the information is outdated. Yeah, for a long time it seemed like HD Sentinel was the only utility that could get SMART data out of a USB drive, but since then many other utilities have come out that can do it also, even free ones. Yousuf Khan |
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