Hitachi GST has a Drive
Fitness Test which uses S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics built into Hitachi
drives.
Maxtor has got S.M.A.R.T. technology. For example see here.
Seagate's SeaTools
is its diagnostic suite for Seagate drives. It comes in desktop and
enterprise versions and there is even a SeaTools Online version.
Western Digital has its Data
Lifeguard which is S.M.A.R.T.-enabled.
What
about drive array vendors? All good arrays will come with diagnostic
monitoring that uses S.M.A.R.T. facilities. Often the technology
is several layers down inside an overall diagnostic suite.
What can you do if you have a JBOD or small server with
internal drives?
Santoods
provides an application, claiming it's the only S.M.A.R.T. disk
monitoring software that supports SCSI, Fibre channel, IDE, and SSA
peripherals on UNIX and Windows Platforms. Techworld reviewed it here.
Shareware
SMART application software is available (look with Google for Ariolic)
but most probably is not of interest to enterprise users.
