or should i run it in wine?

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show
    19·
    11 hours ago

    If it only presents SMART information and temperature and such, you don’t need that software. Tools like smartctl and lm_sensors provides this.

    • workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      21·
      9 hours ago

      it scans the hdd for bitrot and tries to fix it,it has three modes very fast,fast,and long. and other wd software can make the hdd protected by a password.

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Sounds very proprietary, probably won’t find what it needs even under wine.

        However, btrfs checksums every block. If you have a data profile with several copies it will repair it for you.

      • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
        13·
        9 hours ago

        Checking for hdd errors (and fixing them) is done automatically in regular intervals during boot by fsck.
        Smartmontools can give you all info you need on hdd health.
        And disk encryption is handled by LUKS. In all major user-friendly distros (Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, EndeavourOS, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora, Bazzite, …) this can be set up in the graphical installer by clicking a checkbox.
        To encrypt a hard drive after installation, there are graphical frontends (KDE partition manager and Gnome Disc Utility).

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
        7·
        5 hours ago

        I mean, you can’t fix bitrot, if you don’t have a backup or a filesystem with snapshot capability (and NTFS doesn’t). And detecting is, either just scanning if the file is corrupt or you have taken measures via checksuming or a RAID setup.

        In short, that repairing feature is a bunch of woo but you can take real measures against this problem.