Yes, SMART is a diagnostic and preventive program that is activated through the BIOS.
SMART
Hard drive diagnostic program contains the utility to create a bootable USB flash disk. This hard drive diagnostic program can be used to report problems with hard disk drives on PXI/PXIe embedded controllers.
ATA-3 introduced S.M.A.R.T.
S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by a number of major hard disk drive manufacturers to increase the reliability of hard drives. It is a technology that enables the PC to predict the future failure of hard disk drives. S.M.A.R.T. technology has become an industry standard for hard drive manufacturers.
The top four brands of 1TB Hard Drives are amongst others Western Digital hard drives, Seagate hard drives, Toshiba hard drives, and Hitachi hard drives.
Hard disk drives
How are Hard drives indentified and what are their functions
Mac laptops may likely have solid state drives (not hard drives). Those drives are 2.5" form factor and can be replaced by hard drives.
Hard drives last for many years
There are tons of kinds of drives. Floppy Disk Drives, CD-ROM drives, PATA Hard drives, zip drives, flash drives, DVD drives, SATA hard drives.... The list could go on and on and on...
Simpletech produce portable external hard drives. These range from small USB sticks, to larger external hard drives. Simpletech also produces mini versions of the portable hard drives
They store digital information in a relativly permenent form. Some hard drives called 'Hard Disc Drives' store data magnetically on a metal disc. Newer hard drives called 'Solid State Drives' store data electronically on flash memory.