SMARTReporter 2.5.0 - Hard drive pre-failure warning utility. (Free)

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn't mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors - it's just a very valuable indicator.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.5.0:

• IMPORTANT: If you are using e-mail notification of disk-failures with custom settings, please check that it is still working
• Added (optional) automatic check for dangerous "I/O Errors" that are a sign of failing drives
• Added support for notifying you of drive failures through Growl, which can notify you via SMS or pushing to your iPhone (Prowl)
• Added support for sending e-mails with encryption (SSL/TLS) and custom settings (necessary for GMail)
• Usability improvements for seting up e-mail drive failure notifications
• Option to sign up for beta-testing to help development
• Handle case when SMARTReporter is launched from its disk image
• Handle case when SMARTReporter is moved while active
• SMARTReporter defaults to starting in 64-bit mode now
• Added Polish localization (thanks to Jarosław Teterycz)
• Updated Italian localization (thanks to Paolo Zanellati)
• Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald A. Leroux)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks to Jumpei Suzuki)
• Fixed German localization

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.5 or later. At least one ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drive

PRICE

Free

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