Chapter 15: Storage management
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To view the S.M.A.R.T. information of a HDD:
1. From the menu toolbar, click
Storage Management
>
S.M.A.R.T. Settings.
2. Select the HDD whose data you want to see. A detail listing of S.M.A.R.T.
information is displayed.
3. If you want to continue to use a HDD when the S.M.A.R.T. test has failed, select the
checkbox
Use when the disk has failed to self-evaluate
. Click
Apply
to save the
settings.
4. Click
Exit
to return to live view.
Bad sector detection
You can improve the performance of your HDDs by ensuring that they have no bad
sectors. Bad sectors can slow down an HDD when reading or writing data, for example.