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    SMART hard drive status reporting?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by lupin..the..3rd, Nov 5, 2007.

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    lupin..the..3rd Notebook Evangelist

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    Does anyone know how to retrieve the S.M.A.R.T. hard drive status reporting information from within OS X? All hard drives provide this, you just need a piece of software to pull the info from the drive.

    Specifically, I'm need to pull how many power-on hours are on this hard drive. All the OS X utilities I've seen are so simplistic, they don't give you any of the raw info, they only report whether the drive is "healthy" or not.

    TIA.
     
    lupin..the..3rd, Nov 5, 2007
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