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PostPosted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:17 pm 
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I see there are several SMART monitoring tools that run on your PC and monitor the SMART on the HDD's. Can this work with Naslite? Should we be using the tools? and if so, does anyone recommend a tool?

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NASLite already has SMART monitoring built in. No need to buy another tool for NASLite.


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:29 am 
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Right, I know it has it built in, but the server sits in my basement. I think that it only alerts via an audible sound, so you need to be able to hear it.

I saw monitoring tools that run on your PC and in the background monitor the SMART HDD's. They pop up on your PC screen to alert you to any trouble.

Wondering if anyone uses this?


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Well, NAS monitors S.MA.R.T, but its very cryptic and only "yells' if the HD does not past the test, when this happens, its mostly to late. I use on my PC http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/index.html, this tool has also bugs (when 1st HD does not have temp value, second HD temp alarm does also not work, also some temperaturs are offset on some HD), but its pretty good to let you know wehn parameters change and when it detects a pattern in change it will predict pretty accurate when your HD will fail. I my case on 2 HD it was very accurate in prediction when HD will fail totally, one 2 month on the other 4 month ahead before the HD was completely down. In my opinion this is a lot more help then SMART in NAS provides. So i believe, if you are spoiled with a SMART display like this then NAS light is not state of the art. Maybe a better documentation how to use the information in the SMART logs in NAS light would help, I tried to do some research, but the parameters are different on different HD and the display of the values does not help a lot. But maybe its only me that I do not have enough knowledge.


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