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andyalder,<br />
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Very true. I'm looking for an alternative to Insight Manager. &nbsp;Something more proactive to tell me read errors and over health of the hard drives. &nbsp;
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andyalder,

Very true. I'm looking for an alternative to Insight Manager.  Something more proactive to tell me read errors and over health of the hard drives.  

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On my server I have HP Online Diagnostics installed and it does alert me when a drive is having errors and is about to fail. As a matter of fact, this just happened 2 weeks ago.
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On my server I have HP Online Diagnostics installed and it does alert me when a drive is having errors and is about to fail. As a matter of fact, this just happened 2 weeks ago.

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looking for a solution that will monitor hard drives in a HP Storage Array and on existing servers in our clients network. &nbsp;Looking for a solution that monitor read errors, hard drive space, hard drive performance and whether or not the hard drive is getting ready to fail.<br />
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Would like the software to be able to provide reports and email notifications on upcoming failures or issues with the hard drives.<br />
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The monitoring software has to be holistic and granular in nature.
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looking for a solution that will monitor hard drives in a HP Storage Array and on existing servers in our clients network.  Looking for a solution that monitor read errors, hard drive space, hard drive performance and whether or not the hard drive is getting ready to fail.

Would like the software to be able to provide reports and email notifications on upcoming failures or issues with the hard drives.

The monitoring software has to be holistic and granular in nature.

Server Disk and HP Storage Array Health Monitoring Software

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.

Storage Hardware

Servers are computing devices that are similar to desktop computers in that they have the same basic components, but are significantly different in size, configuration and purpose. Servers are usually accessed over a network, and many run unattended, without a computer monitor, input device, audio hardware or USB interfaces. Many servers do not have a graphical user interface (GUI), and are configured and managed remotely. Servers typically include hardware redundancy such as dual power supplies, RAID disk systems, and ECC memory, along with extensive pre-boot memory testing and verification. Critical components might be hot swappable, and to guard against overheating, servers might have more powerful fans or use water cooling.