Any recommendations for a SMART HDD monitoring tool ?

I was opening up the external western digital passport HDD:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=199

It came in a pastic enclosure, like that for mp3s. I was tearing up the enclosure, when a plastic piece snapped and the rest slipped and slammed onto the hardwood floor (as if I had thrown the thing onto the floor). The HDD was still inside.

I am usually uncomfortable moving my laptop around while its running, so when the external HDD slammed into the floor, I nearly had a heart attack.

I plugged in the HDD, and it seems to run ok.
How bad do you guys think it is ? (In terms of shortened life expectancy).

The folks over at anandtech have recommended I check the SMART logs, any recommendations for a SMART monitoring tool ?

 

I am not sure about logs but you can deffinatly read the SMART values. But that it with a grain of salt. Even WD told me that the values are not always 100% correct.

google "s.m.a.r.t hard drive" They all do the same thing from what I have seen.

http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

Run a full check disk to see if there are ant bad sectors.

 

If it is a brand new unit I wouldn't worry about it. WD hard drives come with at least a 1 yr warranty, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a 3 yr. warranty. Also, WD makes some really sturdy hard drives. If you're still concerned, try their Data Lifeguard hard drive diagnostic tools, someone on this forum suggested it and it look pretty good.

 

goddamit, how much love do I have to spread around before I can rep u guys again ??????????????

 

I would not worry. When switched off, new hard disk can withstand shock up to 250G and 20G when operating. I would run the diagnostic tool just to be on the safe side.

 

have a look here, lots of diagnostic hdd software.

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287

John.