SMART Full Form Name
Full Form of SMART:
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting
Technology
SMART Full Form is Self-Monitoring,
Analysis, and Reporting Technology. SMART is a diagnostic
method that detects faults as well as monitors and maintains the technology. It
aims at reducing hard drive failures by reporting and notifying the faults and
errors in advance. SMART method was launched by IBM in the year 1992 for its
disk array so as to predict and identify disk errors. SMART is located between
the input-output systems and helps to find out faults in drive due to
mechanical issues such as wear & tear on the drive or age of the system.
SMART can detect faults by finding out issues on the drive’s physical surface
like the driver head and other parts that caused the damage.
According to the level of damage,
SMART helps to predict drive’s lifespan, which enables a user to backup, store
data or replace the drive timely. However, SMART is unable to detect some
unpredictable or uncommon failures like failures due to damage of an Electrical
component or any type of physical manhandling. SMART plays a major role in
preventing any sort of data loss by notifying the user timely about disk
failure.
SMART can predict upcoming issues
in a hard drive but there are several mechanical issues that SMART cannot
detect or predict in advance. Some of the major hard drive manufacturers that
include the S.M.A.R.T Technology in their hard drives are IBM, Maxtor, Seagate,
Quantum, Fujitsu and Western Digital. Modern SMART technology is a step ahead
it not only predicts system failure and errors it also attempts to repair some
selected errors.