Hard drive health monitor
Can anyone recommend a decent tool to monitor the health of hard drives?
Ive got a HP micro server with four drives of varying age and capacity in it. One drive occasionally makes a bit of excess noise. It's probably on its way out and I do plan to get a new device anyway. Just want something that can work out which one it might be!
Cheers
DJ OD
Re: Hard drive health monitor
CrystalDiskInfo should do the job mate and will tell you which (if any) is knackered or on the way out:
http://crystalmark.info/software/Cry...o/index-e.html
Re: Hard drive health monitor
Have you tried it on a RAID array reverend? I use that to test SMART on normal drives but not tried on RAID. Worth mentioning I've seen plenty of drives pass SMART even though I know they were failing so don't rely on it explicitly but it's my fav app for this too.
I want to set up some monitoring and email reporting on my servers, not got round to it yet.
Re: Hard drive health monitor
It wouldn't work on hardware RAID mate as would just see the one logical drive presented up - works fine with Windows software RAID or drive pools as it can still see all the disks that way :)
With hardware RAID the driver should flag an alert up in the Event Log - other option is depending on the vendor it might be able to send an email or an SNMP alert to somewhere alerting of a disk failure