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How to monitor harddisk health with smartmontools on Ubuntu

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In this article I will give you an overveiw on the Smartmon tools which is a set of applications that can test hard drives and read their hardware SMART statistics to detect harddisk failures early. I will cover installation, usage on the shell and the smartmon GNOME gui in this tutorial.

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