On Windows, I use CrystalDiskInfo to tell me when a hard drive goes bad. It has an indicator icon and automatically updates the SMART-data every couple of minutes or so.

On Linux, there are programs to check SMART values, but they have to be executed manually.

Is there a program that runs in the background and sends a notification as soon as there's a SMART warning?

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From the command line, I did:

man -k smart

and, after ignoring the other meanings of "smart", got:

gsmartcontrol (1) - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
gsmartcontrol-root (1) - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
smart-notifier (1) - dbus service and graphical disk health notifier
smartctl (8) - Control and Monitor Utility for SMART Disks
smartd (8) - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon
smartd.conf (5) - SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon Configuration File
update-smart-drivedb (8) - update smartmontools drive database

These programs are in the following packages:

walt@bat:~(0)$ for i in \ gsmartcontrol-root gsmartcontrol smart-notifier smartctl smartd \ ; do \ dpkg -S $(type -p $i); \ done
gsmartcontrol: /usr/bin/gsmartcontrol-root
gsmartcontrol: /usr/bin/gsmartcontrol
smart-notifier: /usr/bin/smart-notifier
smartmontools: /usr/sbin/smartctl
smartmontools: /usr/sbin/smartd

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