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I've got an older hard drive that I have recently re-formatted to ext4 and would like to use it as a spare of a spare backup.



Before I put any data on it, I was wondering what tools, or applications, that I can use to test its health and reliability.



I have run a fsck against it and smartctl tools indicates that the drive is healthy.





Are there any other utilities that I could run against this drive to give it a basic health pass? This is not mission critical. I am just looking for some additional day-to-day utilities to ease my mind. Thanks.


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You can use "Disk Utility"




  1. Open the Disks application from the Dash.


  2. Select the disk you want to check from the Storage Devices list. Information and status of the disk will appear under Drive.


  3. SMART Status should say "Disk is healthy".


  4. Click the SMART Data button to view more drive information, or to run a self-test.




and if you want to use command line then you can run following command : 



sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda

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