smartmontools has been installed To check the status of drives, use the following: %%PREFIX%%/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ad0 for first ATA/SATA drive %%PREFIX%%/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/da0 for first SCSI drive %%PREFIX%%/sbin/smartctl -a /dev/ada0 for first SATA drive To include drive health information in your daily status reports, add a line like the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_status_smart_devices="/dev/ad0 /dev/da0" substituting the appropriate device names for your SMART-capable disks. To enable drive monitoring, you can use %%PREFIX%%/sbin/smartd. A sample configuration file has been installed as %%PREFIX%%/etc/smartd.conf.sample Copy this file to %%PREFIX%%/etc/smartd.conf and edit appropriately To have smartd start at boot echo 'smartd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf