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Dumb question here, how do I get at the smart readings? How will I know if it's warning me? I'd like to know for Ubuntu and for Windows XP.

In Google's whitepaper on hard drives a while back, they showed that, basically, SMART is useless.

So, take SMART your data with grains of salt and all that.

"man smartctl" is the place to start.

I don't know how to do it on Windows. There's probably a GUI. Although it seems that smartmontools has Windows support.