S.M.A.R.T.--is it?

I've been noticing the "S.M.A.R.T. capable but disabled" go by when my system boots up, so I looked it up in the manual.   So now I know what it is, but what I want to know is: is anyone using this?

You can go inside the BIOS, and enable "SMART". It's one of the BIOS option. Can't exactly remember where it is, but I think you should be able to find it. Actually there is not really any harm of using it or not, it's just a HDD status tracking system built in your HDD, to tell the health of your HDD. It does NOT prevent your HDD being bad or broken. It's only display the status. Do you need it? Maybe... depends on your usage. Those indicators might give you a hint that when you need to replace your HDD

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