ActiveSMART Watches Your Hard Disk for Trouble--So You Don't Have To

[win7holic]

Most users will be fine with a free program such as HD Tune, which simply retrieves your hard drive's S.M.A.R.T. data (self-monitoring information about your drive's health) when you run it. However, if your PC is always-on it might be worth your while to keep a program like the $30 ActiveSMART (or Active SMART as it's referred to in some areas of the program) running in the background to keep an eye on the status.


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[bogdan]

S.M.A.R.T. is somewhat unreliable. The hard-drive can fail without prior notification.

 

[Tweak]

I'm inclined to agree with bogdan here, this is just spending money on something that doesn't really benefit you as it is not a very reliable measure of potential failure. I do however appreciate the effort to share though.