The information and testing routines in SeaTools 5 (Linux) goes beyond those available in Linux Mint's Disks. Many HDD utilities are inconvenient and half-done Ive been happy. Using Cinnamon's menu editor, I placed a link to run_SeaTools.sh in the Administration folder for convenient access. Hard Disk Sentinel is really well-done and meet all the demands concerning HDDs and SSDs. Use this Linux version of the SeaTools GUI to diagnose hard drives and monitor SSDs.īy default, it installs into /opt and works under both Linux Mint 20.3 and 21 Cinnamon. I then did some further research on this HDD which also led me to Seagate's Web site where I was pleased to discover a version of SeaTools for Linux on offer: Due to a catastrophic controller chip failure on a KINGSTON SUV500960G SSD which invoked and scrambled the drive's built-in encryption feature (which I never used), thus rendering the SSD permanently unreadable even by gparted, I was forced to install a 2TB Seagate-Samsung Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD HDD in the notebook in my signature:
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