S.M.A.R.T.D
Whats it?
- Smartd stands for SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon.
- smartd is a daemon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives.
- SMART is a monitoring system for computer hard disks to detect and report on various indicators of reliability, in the hope of anticipating failures.