
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:
