# Checking the health of your hard drive

Category: [Dedicated servers / VPS](https://www.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps.md)
Source page: [https://www.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps/checking-hard-drive-health](https://www.cloudvip.com/en/faq/dedicated-servers-vps/checking-hard-drive-health)
Keywords: disk, HDD

To check your drive, please send us a SMART report.

First check that the package is installed:

apt-get update

apt-get install smartmontools

Then run the command:

smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda

You can send us the result via www.zerobin.net