Introduction

Here you will find articles and documentation (available categories are listed below) related to Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)


Manufacturers
Microsoft
Specifications
Wikipedia
UCSD SMART Project
Other articles

Manufacturers

Samsung

Introduction to S.M.A.R.T.

Seagate

Enhanced Drive Self-Test
Get S.M.A.R.T. for Reliability
Playing it S.M.A.R.T. ( HTML version)

Western Digital

Thermal Monitoring for Advanced Data Protection

Microsoft

Microsoft Support

PC 98 Hardware Devices May Not Work Correctly in Windows 98
Sample: SmartApp.exe Accesses SMART Stats in IDE Drives
SMART Functionality Not Available in Clean Windows Installation
Windows 2000 Starts Slowly After Modifying SMART Drive Parameters
WMI Support for SMART Drives

Specifications

Small Form Factor (SFF) Committee specifications

SFF-8035i (v 2.0)
SFF-8035i (v 1.0)
SFF-8055i (Guide for the ATA and SCSI interfaces)

Technical Committee (T13) specifications

ATA-3 specification
ATAPI/ATA-4 specification
ATAPI/ATA-5 specification
ATAPI/ATA-6 specification
The ATAPI/ATA-7 specification: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Proposals from the Technical Committee T13 are listed here.

Wikipedia

Wikipedia

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UCSD

UCSD SMART Project

Bayesian approaches to failure prediction for disk drives
Improved Disk Drive Failure Warnings

Others

Other articles

Crash Prevention (Gabriele Pohl)
CSCI 2150 - Laboratory Experiment Harddrive Measurements (David Tarnoff )
Detecting unauthorized disk access (Zbigniew Chlondowski)
Get smarter (Mike James)
Hard Drive, Heal Thyself (PC Mechanic)
Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal)
Out S.M.A.R.T (SMART) Your Hard Drive (Matty)
Reference Guide - Hard Disk Drives (PC Guide)
S.M.A.R.T. attributes meaning (Ariolic)
S.M.A.R.T. attributes meaning (PalickSoft)
S.M.A.R.T. software for Linux (UCSC and Quantum)
Soyez Smart (Erwan Velu)
Vorbeugen statt Crash (Gabriele Pohl)
What is S.M.A.R.T.? (Alfredo Milani Comparetti)