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Run an extended S.M.A.R.T. selftest on a hard disk drive on OS X
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smart-selftest-osx.sh
brew install smartmontools
# launch selftest in background during regular system operation (~2h)
smartctl -c -t long disk0
# get test results from S.M.A.R.T. error log
smartctl -l selftest disk0
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