I just discovered this program from a thread in my distro forum and have run it on my mythbox, desktop machine and laptop. I run smartctl time to time but thought I'd try this too. The Health and Performance are what I'm curious about, whether they are accurate indicators? Example on my myth machine:<br>
<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Hard Disk Sentinel for LINUX console 0.03 (c) 2008-2009 <a href="mailto:info@hdsentinel.com">info@hdsentinel.com</a></span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Start with -r [reportfile] to save data to report, -h for help</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Examining hard disk configuration ...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Device 0: /dev/sda</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Model ID : MAXTOR 4K040H2</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Serial No: 672121424162</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Revision : A08.1500</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Size : 38183 MB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Interface : IDE/ATA</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Temperature : 25 °C</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><b><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Health : 99 %</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Performance : 100 %</span></b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Power on time: 9383 days, 20 hours</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Est. lifetime: more than 99 days</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Device 1: /dev/sdb</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Model ID : WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Serial No: WD-WCAS85371659</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Revision : 12.01C02</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Size : 476940 MB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Interface : S-ATA II</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Temperature : 38 °C</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<b><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Health : 100 %</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Performance : 100 %</span></b><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Power on time: 980 days, 21 hours</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Est. lifetime: more than 844 days</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Device 2: /dev/sdc</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Model ID : WDC WD5000AAKS-00TMA0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Serial No: WD-WMAPW1118482</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Revision : 12.01C01</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">HDD Size : 476940 MB</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Interface : S-ATA II</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Temperature : 31 °C</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Health : 100 %</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Performance : 100 %</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Power on time: 1052 days, 4 hours</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Est. lifetime: more than 772 days</span><br><br><br>Thanks<br>Bobby<br>