About Hard Drive Inspector
Hard
Drive Inspector is the most powerful, convenient and effective program based on
the S.M.A.R.T. technology, which allows controlling the state of your hard disk
drives.
Most computer users agree that information stored on their computer is their most valuable element of the computer system. Through the S.M.A.R.T. System, Hard Drive Inspector allows you to predict a possible failure of the HDD before it occurs. As the access to electronic information becomes more and more vital in business and at home, Hard Drive Inspector allows you to reach beyond the traditional boundaries of hddÆs reliability and extend their protection of valuable user data to new and more sophisticated levels.
Hard Drive Inspector has a flexible option system, which allows you to customize the functioning of this utility as you want. Hard Drive Inspector has an easy-to-use, nice-looking interface. It also offers many useful features, which makes the S.M.A.R.T. monitoring process full-scale and easy:
Ability to operate with up to 32 hard drives.
Shows all necessary S.M.A.R.T. information, including current, threshold, worst, and raw values.
Displays a versatile info about a HDD such as its capacity, number of cylinders, heads, sectors, buffer size, etc.
Either an administrator or any user can run Hard Drive Inspector on MS Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP / 2003 operating systems.
monitoring the temperature of your HDD, if it has thermal sensors.
Periodical and "check at startup and exit" operating modes.
Messaging function. Program is able to send a message by e-mail if a HDD is near to falling out.
Detection of HDD's arrival/removal in the hot-swapping mode.
Multilingual user interface.
Hides status area in the taskbar without requiring any desktop space.
Automatic launching at Windows startup.
This version of Hard Drive Inspector supports only hdds with the PATA and some models on SATA interfaces. No RAID/SCSI/USB and other external interfaces are supported.
Minimum system requirements:
Microsoft Windows 98 / NT 4.0 / 2000 / ME / XP / 2003
MS Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
Intel 486DX with 32 MB RAM
5 MB free disk space
An ATA S.M.A.R.T.-capable hard disk drive
A mouse
16-color VGA Card (High Color recommended)