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SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements(called attributes) of a hard drive's operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can
indicate when the hard drive is failing. SMART Utility can read and display these attributes. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive.
 

SMART Utility

Why SMART Utility?

How Much?

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SMART Utility is different from other drive utilities, such as Disk Utility, which only read the overall SMART Status. SMART Utility not only displays the individual attributes to see their status and information, but it also uses an internal algorithm based on those attributes to detect drives failing before SMART indicates it has failed. This pre-fail detection can save precious data before SMART has determined that the drive has failed. And, while the raw information can be viewed on the command line with smartmontools (which is what SMART Utility is based on, SMART Utility presents it in an easy to read format, as well as running its internal pre-fail algorithm.

SMART Utility is available for purchase in the store for $20 for a 10 copy license(a 100 copy license is $100). There is also a French License that will provide payment for the French Translator. For only $20 you can find out now that your hard drive is dying, or you could spend hours or thousands of dollars recovering that important document, picture, or file, after a hard drive crash.

For Technicians

For Businesses

For Consumers

Main Window  with Good  Drive

Drive Information Window

SMART Utility is perfect for consumers. Mac booting or running slow? Getting the spinning wheel often? Can’t open applications or files? These are all symptoms of a bad hard drive. Make sure your hard drive isn’t failing, and that your data is okay. And if your hard drive is failing, the early warning that SMART Utility provides you with time to back up all of your precious data.

SMART Utility is also perfect for businesses. Run SMART Utility weekly or even daily on the most important Macs in your business, such as the Mac that tracks the financial data, to ensure that the hard drive, and the data on that drive, is okay. And if its not, it can be backed up before too much is lost, saving time and money.

And finally, SMART Utility is perfect for Macintosh Service Technicians. Instead of spending an hour or more trying to determine if the hard drive, you can find out in seconds. Not only can your time be spent on backing up data (for an extra fee of course!), but you’re customer will be happy that you found out the problem so fast- and the data can be saved(in most cases)! And with a very liberal license(10 copies at the lowest price), any company can use it to improve their efficiency and their customer’s happiness.

Features

  1. • Displays all supported drives and their partitions

  2. • Displays important information in the main window, such as drive model, capacity, power on hours, temperature, bad sector counts, and error counts and types

  3. • Displays easy to read overall SMART status with color coded text

  4. • Displays more detailed information in separate windows, including capabilities, all available attributes, and the past five errors

  5. • Supports scanning individual RAID drives in addition to non-RAIDed drives

  6. • Supports logging all information to a log file for verifying SMART data

  7. • Supports Mac OS X 10.4 or later (including Server) and both PowerPC and Intel Macs

Main Window with Bad Sectors

Attributes Window with Bad Sectors

Error Window