{"id":41308,"date":"2021-06-18T10:06:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T10:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polarising.com\/?p=41308"},"modified":"2022-08-29T15:50:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T15:50:55","slug":"smart-monitoring-and-hdd-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarising.com\/techinside\/smart-monitoring-and-hdd-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Be S.M.A.R.T. and check your data! HDD Monitoring and Reporting."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cloud adoption is on the rise<\/a> and for good reasons. The simplified application hosting and delegated resource management provides companies and individuals the security of a monitored infrastructure, combined with the ease of access to computing resources. Still, these features come at a cost, and cloud computing<\/strong> is not a cheap endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to reduce the cloud computing budget, many organizations decide to run their production environments on the cloud while maintaining quality environments in premises. It would be easy to overlook the necessity of proper resource monitoring, since the cloud has accustomed us to its resilience and fault tolerance. However, doing so could potentially lead to data loss and hours spent on system recovery. In this article we focus on monitoring the health of our infrastructure building blocks<\/strong>, the hard disk drives [HDD]s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System: the SMART approach. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The truth is all drives will eventually fail. Our objective is, therefore, to collect and interpret the signs and symptoms an HDD shows before failing, so that we can be ready for that event. To do so, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART)<\/strong> built into the most modern disks, can be of assistance. This system reports internal information about the drive, including failure events. Among these, an increase in the following metrics indicates impending HDD failure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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