smart utility是volitans software公司推出的磁盘驱动器状态检测工具.它包括自我监控,分析并提供错误报告,它直观的界面让用户可明确地知道自己的磁盘状况.这样,你就可以选择最合适的时间来备份磁盘内容,如果对自己的磁盘并不是那么放心的话.

smart utility不仅仅显示了个人信息的属性值及状态,也从整个硬件内部侦测并列出状况,以直观的方式显示.报告中包含错误的扇区计数.

smart utility具有的功能有:

* 陈列所有被支持的驱动器及其分区;

* 在主窗口中直接显示部分重要的信息,如磁盘模块,大小,硬盘已经使用的时间,温度,被破坏的扇区计数和错误计数等;

* 整体阅读smart的报告,阅读时支持颜色调用;

* 在独立窗口中显示其它详细的信息,包括所有属性与错误信息;

* smart支持growl消息桌面通知需要第三方安装.(阅读:growl技巧-使通知程式更新时发出声音警报)

* 支持单块磁盘的内置测试,并显示侦测报告;

* 支持扫描raid(via wikipedia)阵列上的应用程式,包括seritek驱动器,来自firmtek出品的存储理念;

* 支持将所有的信息记录到日志文件的报告中;

* 支持定制失败的算法—辨别方式,需要购买其服务.

Volitans SMART Utility 3.x MacOSX | 5.31 MB

SMART Utility is an application to scan the internal hardware diagnostics system of hard drives. SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is a system built into hard drives by their manufacturers to report on various measurements(called attributes) of a hard drive's operation. The attributes can be used to detect when a hard drive is having mechanical or electrical problems, and can indicate when the hard drive is failing. SMART Utility can read and display these attributes. This allows time to hopefully backup, and then replace the drive. SMART Utility also allows running a drive's built in self test, which can also indicate malfunctions on the drive.

WHY USE SMART UTILITY?

SMART Utility is different from other drive utilities, such as Disk Utility, which only read the overall SMART Status. SMART Utility not only displays the individual attributes to see their status and information, but it also uses an internal algorithm based on those attributes to detect drives failing before SMART indicates it has failed. This pre-fail detection can save precious data before SMART has determined that the drive has failed. And, while the raw information can be viewed on the command line with smartmontools (which is what SMART Utility is based on, SMART Utility presents it in an easy to read format, as well as running its internal pre-fail algorithm. Plus, with the ability to run self tests, problems can be detected even sooner.

FEATURES

Displays all supported drives and their partitions

Displays important information in the main window, such as drive model, capacity, power on hours, temperature, bad sector counts, and error counts and types

Displays easy to read overall SMART status with color coded text

Displays more detailed information in separate windows, including capabilities, all available attributes, and the past five errors

Displays information using the Growl notification service (if installed)

Displays information in menu bar

Supports saving drive reports for later viewing

Supports printing drive reports

Supports scanning in the background

Supports running a hard drive's built-in test, and displays the results of the test

Supports scanning OS X software RAID drives, as well as drives in many RAID enclosures and cards (including SeriTek drives)

Supports logging all information to a log file for verifying SMART data

Supports customizing the pre-fail algorithm, including only alerting new bad sectors and error counts

Supports Mac OS X 10.4.11, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7, on both PowerPC and Intel Macs

Fully localized in French, thanks to Ronald A. Leroux

Homepage:

http://www.volitans-software.com/smart_utility.php