Disk diagnostics

This section covers guides for monitoring and assessing the health of disks in your dedicated servers using SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology). Regular disk health monitoring is essential for identifying drives that are approaching failure before data loss occurs.

We provide separate guides for servers with and without a hardware RAID controller, as the method of accessing SMART data differs depending on whether disks are directly exposed to the operating system or managed by a controller.