I recently had some issue with an internal Hard Drive (ext4) and not being a linux guru I did not realise I had a problem until it was too late. It would be a really useful feature to have an equivalent of CrystalDiskInfo in the Windows world (possibly GSmartControl) that is call-able from a plugin so the "average Jo" can install and run the plugin to see if the disk has any current pending sectors etc. I suspect my drive may have been "on the way out" for some time but it was not until I had a catastrophic event (several freezes and several crashes when using Timeshift) that I thought to investigate the structure of the disk and it's smart attributes. This was not easy (for me as a non-linux person) but it turned out that after much Googling and running of commands that EXT4 was partially corrupt and I had several CPS's. Replaced the drive and the ZgemmaH7 has been behaving much better.
Is there such a plugin and if so would it be a "good thing" to have in in the standard build so that it can be called from the menu's??
Thanks
Paul