Believe it or not, every recently made hard drive has a built-in SMART chip, which can predetermine hard drive failure before it happens. The problem is that no operating systems read this SMART chip’s information by default, so it’s essentially useless to most people. But, with SMARTReporter, you can interpret the information it has with ease. SMARTReporter sits in the menu bar, and shows a little (changeable) hard drive icon. By default, a green icon means everything is working fine, a gray icon means the status is unknown, and a red icon means your drive is at risk of failing. With this information available, you can know to back up all of your files before your hard drive dies.
Rating: 5/5. Awesome, very useful. Could just save your bacon someday.
Developer site:
CoreCode.at/SMARTReporter
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