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  • That SMART acronym is for internal computer drives, has been in use since about 1995, and is a wonderful thing - the drive keeps track of how many errors it encounters reading, how many bad sectors on the drive, how many hours it’s been powered on, and a whole bunch of other stats.

    And then, you, the user (/sysadmin) can, while sitting at the computer, get a report of all these stats and notice if the drive is starting to fail so you can plan a replacement instead of it just dying unexpectedly.

    Someone might have made an acronym for “smart” light bulbs, but it would be completely unrelated to the internal computer drive acronym.