What is best way to analyse the health of a large external 2TB/3TB/4TB USB hard drive with NTFS partitions in Ubuntu quickly?

I want to get some diagnostic data on overall health of the hard drive without doing an in depth scan.

So far I know gnome-disk-utility and gsmartcontrol.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

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You've already mentioned the use of the SMART features found in the Disks app, Tests & Data, and gsmartcontrol. A+

Another quick thing that you can do is to monitor /var/log/syslog* in terminal, like so...

grep -i sda /var/log/syslog*
  • change sda to your desired drive to search for
  • note the trailing * after syslog

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