Look up S.M.A.R.T., though be aware that some controllers may not co-operate, but that tends to be things like outboard USB interfaces, or RAID. Ordinary hard drives plugged straight into the motherboard are likely to be checkable. It's the hard drive, itself, that checks its health and produces the stats, smartctl just gives you an interface.
Please see my reply to Rick.
That you ought to try rebooting using a previous kernel, and see if problems persist.
I did, and the problem showed up with all three of the latest f24 versions available in the grub menu.
Yes, an update can be more stressful than other PC activities, for *some* users. But for other users, they're always subjecting their PC to a heavy workload, so a prolonged update session is nothing different from normal use.
I don't understand what you're saying here. Both weekly patches went very quickly (I wish windows-7 were like that!) and with no errors reported in the output.
But what type of power supply did you put in? Did you match the wattage your supplier said you needed, did you overcompensate by an extra 100 watts? Did you get some generic Chinese thing, or something that had a reputation?
I did not figure out that part for myself. I got advice from a friend with decades of experience working for IBM's high performance division, and then for Cray research. The power supply is a Thermaltake TR2 600W. The system also has a Core i7-3770K @ 3.5GHz x 8, 16 GB memory, GeForce GTX 660 graphics card, an ASUS Xonar Essence STX audio card, a 2 TB hard drive, 2 blu-ray drives, keyboard, trackball, web cam (rarely plugged in), two 27-inch Dell monitors, and 2 small speakers. It's no gaming system, but a rather high-powered programming workstation by 2013 standards.
Thank-you, Bill.