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02-12-2006, 12:00 AM
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Utility for monitoring HDD health
Hi,
Anyone have a recommendation here. I need something that will give me a heads up if one of my drives starts to go south. I just cannot justify a raid 5 array so I'm just gonna try and dodge all the bullets.  TIA Jesse 
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02-12-2006, 12:39 AM
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Modern hard drives have this built in. It's called SMART Status (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). It needs to be supported by and enabled in the bios. It's a feature that is almost always disabled by default in the bios (not sure why).
I haven't used it, but Active Smart looks pretty nice. http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/s...echnology.html Though if you just want something to look at once in a while you can just download the WD tool and it will give you the status for free. Last edited by dbfresh23; 02-12-2006 at 12:43 AM.
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02-13-2006, 01:07 PM
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hdd health is completely free and works well....I put it on every pc I have; don't know why this isn't built into windows. It will give you prediction dates for failure.
http://www.panterasoft.com/
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