Free s.m.a.r.t software for windows

S.M.A.R.T (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) was the result of the collaboration of several hard drive manufactures in order to increase the reliability of hard drives and increase the range of predictability that there would be for hard drive failures. The primary purpose of S.M.A.R.T technology is to allow advanced diagnostics into hard drives at such a level that data loss and other information disasters can be prevented.
Most modern hard drives are equipped with S..M.A.R.T technology which allows to query the status of a hard drives at a very granular level. Using these methods, an organization can avoid hard drive loss for up to 70% (according to current S.M.A.R.T) statistics.
S.M.A.R.T SharePoint is a software application that provides insight to SharePoint servers hard drive status. S.M.A.R.T SharePoint leverages available S.M.A.R.T methods so that you can monitor your SharePoint hard drives so that data disasters can be prevented, mitigating risk for your SharePoint environment. Before any of your critical SharePoint data gets lost, S.M.A.R.T SharePoint will alert you to any problems.

CrystalDiskInfo 3.0.1 is a powerful and easy-to-use HDD health monitoring utility which displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature.

Major Features:

1. General Information
2. S.M.A.R.T. Information
3. AAM/APM Control
4. Graph of S.M.A.R.T. Information
5. Resident and Alarm
6. Theme
7. Text Copy
   • Controller Information
   • General Information
   • S.M.A.R.T. Information
   • Result of identify device command
   • Result of smart read data command
   • Result of smart read threshold command

Monitor the SMART attributes of your disk drives to avoid drive failure PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART ( Self Monitoring Analysis & Reporting Technology ) is an interface between a computers BIOS (basic input/output system) and the computer hard disk.
It is a feature of the Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics (EIDE) technology that controls access to the hard drive. If S.M.A.R.T is enabled when a computer is set up, the BIOS can receive analytical information from the hard drive and determine whether to send the user a warning message about possible future failure of the hard drive.
SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as Spin Up Time, the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the temperature.
DiskCheckup displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. If any attribute value is close to or below the threshold, the drive is no longer reliable and should be replaced.
Note that SMART attributes change slowly over time and are helpful when diagnosing the life span of a particular drive.
DiskCheckup will display some additional drive information, such as the drive serial number, tracks, the number of cylinders, model number, the sectors per track, etc.
System requirements:
- 16 MB RAM
- 1 MB of disk space.
- A hard drive and BIOS that supports SMART, plus compatible drivers. Most recent hard drives are OK but drives connected via SCSI or hardware RAID will not work. But drives connected via SATA (serial ATA) are supported. Drives configured as software RAID (dynamic disks) via Windows Disk Management will also work.
Note: Free for personal use only.