SMARTReporter 2.1.5 review

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of (S)ATA hard-drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 605K Developer: Julian Mayer Price: $0.00 Updated: 22 Sep 2006

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SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of (S)ATA hard-drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard-drives.

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard-drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems.

Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports (S)ATA hard-drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your SCSI, USB or FireWire hard-drive, send feedback to Apple. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.

What's New:
Make SMARTReporter finally work on the Intel-Macs
Fixed a crash on Laptops that had a Flash-Card inserted
Fixed a small memory leak
Fixed a bug in the Disk-Image-packaging
Fixed French translation (thanks to Ronald Leroux)
Added a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions - with answers ;-)
Added some string-localizations.

Requirements:
At least one ATA or S-ATA hard-drive.