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Active SMART
Active SMART is an award winninghard disk status analyzer and failure prediction software for your hard drive. It uses S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to monitor the health status of Hard Disk Drives (HDD), prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fail using special algorithms.
Through the S.M.A.R.T. system, hard disk drives incorporate a
suite of advanced diagnostics that monitor the
internal operations of a drive and provide an
early warning for many types of potential
problems. When a potential problem is detected,
the drive can be repaired or replaced before any
data are lost.
The S.M.A.R.T. system consists
of software that resides both on the disk drive
and on the host computer. The software on the disk
drive monitors the internal performance of the
motors, media, heads, and electronics of the
drive. The host software (Active SMART) determines
the overall reliability of the drive by analyzing
the drive's internal performance parameters and
comparing them to predetermined threshold limits.
Active SMART has several monitoring
modes and can be used for personal use as well as
for large computer systems. Various local and
remote monitoring modes and alerting options are
available.
Active SMART allows every HDD in the
system to be monitored for faults and potential
failure 24 hours for a day for things that may
lead to a crash. If a fault is detected, you are
notified with various local alerting options. Also
remote notifications via e-mail or network
messenger are available.
With Active SMART
monitor you have full information about S.M.A.R.T.
status of the hard disk, general information about
the drive, special information about drive's
features and manufacturing information. No special
technical knowledge is required to use Active SMART.
Main
features:
- Active SMART uses
powerful S.M.A.R.T. technology to analyze status of the hard
disk
- It supports both ATA/IDE and SCSI
interfaces for connecting hard drives to computers
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Active SMART detects more then 35 S.M.A.R.T.
attributes
- Retrieves all S.M.A.R.T.
information and specific information about every HDD in the
system
- S.M.A.R.T. status Quick View mode
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Predicts HDD fail date using special
algorithms
- Active SMART works on system
background
- Individual control of every S.M.A.R.T.
attribute
- It can be used as monitoring software for
home use or for large computer systems
- Easy-to-use
interface allows users to use Active SMART without any special
technical knowledge
- The built in messaging features
allow for system administrators to be notified of impending
hard disk failure on any machine on the network while local
alerting can be configured to notify the user
- Works
with all hard disk drives in the system
- Reads
internal drive data and manufacturer's information from
internal drive's memory
and other
features.
What's
new - version 2.12:
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Added new feature - you can save
disk S.M.A.R.T. status as a text file
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Added information for 14 new
S.M.A.R.T. attributes
- Fixed bug with
disk manufacturer detection on some
drives
- Fixed bug with alert email
sending
- Fixed bug with wrong T.E.C.
date, even if no T.E.C. state defined
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