ActiveSmart

[ha14]

Hi



The hard drive is an important component in our entire PC because it holds all our work: Disks eventually dies.

Hard drives of pc are not isolated and coexist with all included parts such as motherboards, graphical cards....and are exposed to different risk factors such as mechanical wear and aging.This is also true for poorly managed machines.

All modern disks are equipped with a feature called S.M.A.R.T.(Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) that allows real-time analysis and reporting of any developing problems and potential issues.How to read the warnings?

Microsoft Windows, including the new Windows Vista, does not bundle any tools that can access this data. Sometimes the disk itself provides advance warning that something is wrong, ActiveSmart can clarify this situation.


In the past years, many software were developped in the aim of monitoring hard drives and ActiveSmart deserves to have more attention.
I have seen too many hard drives deteriorated and as result loss of precious data in most cases. So why wasting time to buy a data recovering software and not to have a security plan to monitor hard drives and to be alerted in the event of an upcoming disaster of hard drive lost.
This can be achieved practically in scientific way and a realtime monitoring way is proposed by ActiveSmart.


One can say that backing up datas is a better option,well yes if you have more than one hard drives. Dont forget that hard drives gains also temperatures while running big data operations for a long time,
once the drive temperature goes over some critical point, it become very dangerous and can also spread to another hard drive. So basically the other partition where a backup was made can also be affected.
Why not to spend more on a monitoring tool like ActiveSmart which handles this critical situation in a professional matter.

This program is not data recovery software, but it can help you to monitor all your hard disks, it is handy HDD diagnostic utility for your everyday use.
it's much better to check the health status of your hard drive on a regular basis, so you can get a new one in time and avoid data loss completely.




ActiveSMART checks a drive and establishes a threshold for its performance in several areas. It can then notify the user when any of those measurements falls below the performance threshold, possibly signaling an impending drive failure. Some of the factors it checks are head floating height, data throughput performance, spin-up time, seek error rate, seek time performance, and drive calibration retry count.

Key Benefits of ActiveSMART

-Easy Installation and little resource required
-Powerful hard drive health monitor
-Runs constantly in the background, thereby providing real-time information about the condition of the hard drive / disk(s)
-Full support of hard drive S.M.A.R.T. technology
-Detailed hard drive status reports
-Provides graphical comparison of temperature fluctuations in relation to warning / shutdown levels
-Health, Performance, Free Space information for all your drives
-Hard drive Temperature monitor
-Scan for bad and unstable sectors on our hard drive
-Alerts if something wrong is about to happen with your hard drive! With Sound
-A quick S.M.A.R.T. scan mode allows evaluating the disk state at one glance.
-Emergency system shutdown in case of hard drive overheating
-Can test any IDE/SATA disk
-Simple and easy to use, with no loss in system performance
-User friendly interface
- ActiveSmart can deliver those warnings by email or over the network.

System Requirements
- Pentium 233 MHz or higher processor
- Minimum 128 MB of RAM Memory (256 MB recommended)
- Minimum 7 MB available hard disk space
- IE 5.5 or higher
- Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista



Conclusion
Nowadays it's important to understand that hard drives keeping in good health do not require a lecture. The health of our hard drive is just as important as the security of the pc. ActiveSmart is a great utility for helping us to maintain our hard drive integrity and performance.


PC drive failures no more here is ActiveSmart from Ariolic Software.

http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/index.html


--------How to get a free license for ActiveSMART

We are offer a free ActiveSMART license (regular price is $34.95). If you would like to participate in this program you can:

Send us you Success Story with a good example of how to use ActiveSMART
Share your experience with us and get a free license.

Publish a review or an article about ActiveSMART on your website or blog
Once you posted your review, please contact us at info@ariolic.com and provide a link to your article. We will check it and send you a free license.
Please note: the website or blog with review must be active.

http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/free-license.html

[kavinraja]

Would be useful... Thank you...

[ha14]

Its a good way to monitor hard drives and Active Smart do its job. Also for gamers this is a handy straightforward utility. I like the temperature graphic in this Active Smart. A trial version is available to make a decision plus it runs quitely. They have also the USB version.

[Polkadot]

SpeedFan is a FREE program that monitors HDD, CPU, and many other temperatures. It also allows you to set min/max temps to turn on/off the fans. A very handy utility, especially for overclockers, gamers, and anyone else wishing to push your box to the limits! FREE @:

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php