Here is a small binary tool developed by hdsentinel.com to examine harddisk temperature, Lifetime, health, Serial/Model no & performance.
List of features
- Display hard disk / solid state disk information on the terminal
Create comprehensive report about the disk system
Display and manage acoustic setting of hard disks
offers outputs for both users and scripts/other applications to process
temperature, health and performance values
power on time (days, hour, minutes – if supported)
Can generate reports in txt / xml etc
Installating the tool
You must be on root shell to execute this tool
- # wget http://gnutoolbox.com/download/linux/hdd/hdsentinel.gz
# gunzip -d hdsentinel.gz
# chmod +x hdsentinel
# ./hdsentinel
You will get an output similar to below where you can find all the information’s about the disk(s) you have installed in your server.
Errors :
If you hitting errors like this, try to install ld-linux.so.2 library in your machine.
[root@ip-10-0-0-72 ~]# ./hdsentinel
-bash: ./hdsentinel: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
[root@ip-10-0-0-72 ~]# yum install ld-linux.so.2
