Thursday, July 19, 2007

Software that can report impending hard disk failure

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some ATA hard disk failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard disk. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disks that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems:


SMARTReporter

1 comment:

Blimp said...

Beck,

Thanks for the tip about the SMART Reporter!

Love,
Kiks