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[Acronym] for __S__elf __M__onitoring, __A__nalysis and __R__eporting __T__echnology. If you see your [BIOS] refer to S.M.A.R.T this is it. The Hard drive supports many features that people aren't normally aware. A hard drive can try and predict it's failure, and can tell you various parts about it's health, configure it for security, perform a "security disk wipe" and all sorts of goodies. Grab "smartsuite": http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartsuite and try First enable SMART: smartctl -e /dev/hd''x'' Then view it's information: smartctl -a /dev/hd''x'' It's amazing, it gives you the total running time of the drive, how many times it's been power cycled (!), how many sectors have been remapped (and when!). Definately one of computings li'l secrets.
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