I can't get S.M.A.R.T. to work, even with the F5 BIOS.
Anyone got S.M.A.R.T. working? It works on my DS3 server, but not my DQ6 workstation.
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ with cygwin install, smartctl is under util. Then just turn on SMART in your BIOS and then use smartctl from within cygwin. Claim is that 70% of hard disk failures give some early symptoms, which S.M.A.R.T. detects.
Can also use
http://www.rsdsoft.com/hdd-thermometer/ for just hard disk temperatures.
man smartd.conf
man smartctl
man smartd
/usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/hda /usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda
/usr/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/hda