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DESCRIPTION

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.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.3.7:
  • IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes on 10.3.x this time
  • IMPORTANT BUGFIX: REALLY fixed the crashes with the Spanish, Russian and Catalan localizations
  • Updated French localization (thanks to Ronald Leroux)
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.3 or later. At least one ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drive


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Developer:corecode
Downloads:57,898
  - Version d/l:5,901
Utilities:System
License:Free
Date:22 Feb 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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    SMARTReporter User Reviews (49 posts)Write A Review
    Jun 2 2008

    AIKOUSHA  SMART isn't prescient. It cannot predict all problems that will cause a hard disc to become unreadable. It's main purpose is to detect hardware faults and issues which can cause and are signs of hardware failure and hardware issues that can cause write and read errors.

    For instance (and I have had this happen several times with OSX directly related to Spotlight issues), if your system writes garbage to the boot blocks or partition maps, your hard drive will no longer boot or be recognized by the system, as this isn't a fault of the Hard Drive, there is no way SMART can predict it. However, if sector seeks start taking longer, or blocks start taking repetitive reads to load successfully, SMART will register these.

    BTW, if your drive fails due to things like boot block or partition map corruptions, you may want to try the program "Data Rescue" or "Stellar Phoenix," the only two programs that will find and recover the files on drives so afflicted. I reccommend Data Rescue as it is infinitely faster, and tons more reliable.  (Version 2.3.7)

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    May 19 2008

    JACKWEB  Hmm SMART itself may not be reliable but at least if you're getting a more indepth check it might prove to be reliable in the long run.

    SMART Utility offers additional functionality, including pre-failure warnings, that SMARTReporter doesn't seem to offer? (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24875/smart-utility)

    I'm trying it out, no crashes yet. But not free :(

    Though SMART Utility is really a GUI for the open source command line tool 'smartmontools':

    http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

    Or SMARTctl which is free, but hasn't been updated in over a year.

    (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23777/smartctl)  (Version 2.3.7)

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    Apr 20 2008

    SILIZIUM  [Quote] "I agree with the previous poster. SMART itself is unreliable. I have had two disk crashes in 18 months - in both cases data was unrecoverable - couldn't even mount the volume. SMART status stayed green all the way - no warning." [/Quote]

    If this is true, It's real flapdoodle to have this program.  (Version 2.3.7)

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    Feb 22 2008

    EYL  I agree with the previous poster. SMART itself is unreliable. I have had two disk crashes in 18 months - in both cases data was unrecoverable - couldn't even mount the volume. SMART status stayed green all the way - no warning.  (Version 2.3.7)

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