Wednesday, December 30, 2015

usb - Health check of external hard drives

What is best way to analyse the health of a large external 2TB/3TB/4TB USB hard drive with NTFS partitions in Ubuntu quickly?


I want to get some diagnostic data on overall health of the hard drive without doing an in depth scan.


So far I know gnome-disk-utility and gsmartcontrol.


Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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