Archive for July, 2010
Hard Drive Monitoring Software
by atomike on Jul.30, 2010, under Advise, Computer Software
Even though hard drives come equipped with monitoring sensors, like SMART, the average user does not know how to check the “health” status of their hard drives. Sometimes people find out their hard drive is malfunctioning because they hear a clicking noise. By then it is too late, and recovering data is very difficult at that point.
Thankfully many companies have come out with software to monitor your hard drives. Most Linux distros already have this feature, but OSX and Windows do not come with hard drive monitoring software. The software I have been testing for the past two months on some of my clients computers is Acronis Disk Monitor. It warns you about potential hard drive failures and determines the health status of your hard drive based on SMART flags. best of all, it is FREE.
I recommend anyone to install it on their Windows machines (unfortunately its not for OSX). Try it out and report your experience here.
