The most common way to check the health of the external hard disk??

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  • smartmontools

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  • someone already answered smartctl. here is some additional info about it: https://www.smartmontools.org/

  • gsmartcontrol

    GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

  • this is for a gui for smartctl called GSmartControl: https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/

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