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[garyhgaryh]

Anyone know if it's possible to get SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) report from the drives that are inside the NAS?

I have those dreaded seagate 1.5T drives which are working great for me.  Some say I may not know I have an issue since sectors that are bad may be reallocated or reassign.  This may slow down your tranfer, but you may not know the difference.

I noticed lately my popcorn hour (media player) is having a difficult time playing videos that were once playable.  The issue maybe due to the fact that I have a bad or noisy connection on my power line adapter (happens before then clears up).. I wanted to check the smart data on my drives to see if there have been any reallocated or reassign sectors which could explain the issues I'm having with my media player or that my drive may be at a higher probability of failing.

[garyhgaryh]

Ah, I found this link.  You guys with the 1.5T seagate drive should monitor your drive(s) with this utility.

http://www.horto.ca/?p=25

Streaming video to my popcorn hour media player seem to have slowed down a bit.  I'm wondering if my 1.5T drives are reallocating sectors due to errors which would slow down the access of data from these drives.  Or I may have issues with my powerline ethernet adapter.

Gary

[garyhgaryh]

To install the SMART tools:

Log into your dns-323 (assuming you have funplug installed)

cd /mnt/HD_a4/packages (or whatever temporary directory you use for packages)
wget http://www.inreto.de/dns323/fun-plug/0.5/packages/smartmontools-5.38-3.tgz
funpkg -i smartmontools-5.38-3.tgz

Now I think this enables reporting (correct me if I'm wrong, for drive 1 and 2):
smartctl -i -d marvell /dev/sda
smartctl -i -d marvell /dev/sdb

To get info:
smartctl -a -i -d marvell /dev/sda
smartctl -a -i -d marvell /dev/sdb

Look under the raw value column for your data...

It seems like I have an unusually large # for the following column: raw_read_error_rate, seek_error_rate
Not sure what typical #'s are.

I love the fact this thing has VI.
Gary

[ECF]

This feature is available in the beta code for the DNS-321 currently only.

[ttmcmurry]

It seems like I have an unusually large # for the following column: raw_read_error_rate, seek_error_rate
Not sure what typical #'s are.

Stored within the drive's SMART system are the acceptable parameters- perhaps smartmontools only reads the raw data for each of the SMART categories (I don't have that app installed, so I can't tell if it actually can detect a TEC or not). 

Several of the older (160-320 GB) models, always had really high read/seek error rates according to SMART, but in reality it was totally normal and since I didn't know the scale the numbers were measured in... 

[garyhgaryh]

This feature is available in the beta code for the DNS-321 currently only.

How do I use it on the dns-321? I assume there is  no UI interface for it.
Do I need to telnet into it and type "smartctl -a -i -d marvell /dev/sda"?

[D-Link Multimedia]

Actually it is built into the UI. Status Page if im not mistaken.