I have hard drive that's about seven years old and just today I noticed some lag in the Dolphin file manager and I know that can be a sign that your HDD is going bad. But I would like to test my HDD with a GUI app because I'm not all that skilled with the terminal. Can someone please help me out? Is there a GUI HDD testing app built into Kubuntu? Because I know that Ubuntu has one built in.
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Last edited by Snowhog; Sep 12, 2020, 01:55 PM. -
I use GSmartControl. Find it in Synaptic or Muon.The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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Thanks I tried GSmartControl and it found nothing wrong with my HDD I checked general, attributes, statistics, self test, error log, temperature log and advanced and all them came up clean.Originally posted by jglen490 View Post
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That's good. I'm quite sure there are other test tools available, I just haven't looked too hard. I keep a few drives in my parts drawer. If one of my PC drives takes a sudden nose dive, I can always make a quick setup with a spinner or a small SSD until I can get a good replacement. For a long time I have installed Kubuntu using two drives (OS, /home), and routinely backup my /home. I also keep a current download of Kubuntu on a USB thumb drive, so recovery of any kind is simple
The next brick house on the left
Intel i7 11th Gen | 16GB | 1TB | KDE Plasma 5.27.11| Kubuntu 24.04 | 6.8.0-31-generic
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Once again thanks and good news is better than bad news.
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