System and method for monitoring hard disk drives

A system for monitoring a plurality of groups of hard disk drives (HDDs) in a server, the system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage module connected to the processor, and storing a plurality of computerized instructions executed by the processor, wherein the storage module comprises:
• a data-obtaining unit configured to obtain a status message of each HDD, wherein the data-obtaining unit comprises a counter that is increased by one after obtaining all the status message of one group and forms a message package comprising all the status message of the group;
• a protocol-analyzing unit configured to decode the message package and generate a plurality of status codes and obtain the count of the counter;
• a storage unit storing a plurality of warning message types;
• a determination unit obtaining a warning message by comparing the status code with the warning message types and obtaining a current group number based on the count of the counter and the total number of groups;
• and
• an encoding and delivering unit transferring the warning message and the current group number.