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3. If the high temperature situation doesn’t last for 3 minutes, controller
will not do auto shutdown.
3.7.3 Hard drive S.M.A.R.T. support
S.M.A.R.T.
(
S
elf-
M
onitoring
A
nalysis and
R
eporting
T
echnology) is a diagnostic
tool for hard drives to deliver warning of drive failures in advance. S.M.A.R.T.
provides users chances to take actions before possible drive failure.
S.M.A.R.T. measures many attributes of the hard drive all the time and inspects
the properties of hard drives which are close to be out of tolerance. The
advanced notice of possible hard drive failure can allow users to back up hard
drive or replace the hard drive. This is much better than hard drive crash when it
is writing data or rebuilding a failed hard drive.
“S.M.A.R.T.”
can display S.M.A.R.T. information of hard drives. The number is
the current value; the number in parenthesis is the threshold value. The threshold
values of hard drive vendors are different; please refer to vendors’ specification
for details.
Figure 3.7.3.1