ActiveSMART^®

ActiveSMART is a realtime hard drive health status monitor. It utilizes the S.M.A.R.T. technology to track the status of the computer hard disks. Its main goal is timely detecting and anticipating any problems, occurring with the hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

Key Benefits of ActiveSMART

   Powerful hard drive health monitor
   Full support of hard drive S.M.A.R.T. technology
   Feel safe with ActiveSMART protecting your hard drive
   Notebook power saving mode support. Use the same version of ActiveSMART on desktop PC and laptops!
   Detailed hard drive status reports
   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!
   User friendly interface

And even more - with ActiveSMART you can check how old is your hard drive, how many read or write errors it collected, change the hard drive power mode or noise level and more..

 If you want to monitor hard drives connected through USB interface then download ActiveSMART for USB hard drives

Key Program Features

• Realtime hard drive diagnostic
• S.M.A.R.T. disks technology support
• Alerts about hard drive health status changes
• Hard-drive temperature control to prevent disk overheating
• Hard drive Performance, Health, Temperature and Free Space indicators
• Set critical disk temperature and Active SMART will automatically save your work and suspend your PC in case of hard drive overheating
• Various types of alerts about disk state
• ActiveSMART is a Power-Aware application - it saves the battery power on notebooks in Power Saving modes
• Flexible settings
• and many more...

ActiveSMART 2.71 release notes 

How does ActiveSMART work?

ActiveSMART
is not installed

If ActiveSMART is not installed on the user system,
the user doesn't receive the disks state information.
Any S.M.A.R.T. system warnings will be ignored

ActiveSMART
is installed

If ActiveSMART is installed, all information about the disk will be accepted and analyzed by the program.
The user will be notified about any potential disk emergency situations immediately

How does ActiveSMART protect my data?

Just as soon as the hard disk state changes, an S.M.A.R.T. system, integrated into the disk, notifies you about it. The disk condition may slowly decline; however, this might not show for a bit, while the disk is able to correct its own mistakes. That can go on for some time until, one day, the disk is not able to fix its mistakes and the data on the disk is no longer readable or recoverable.
All this time, while the disk condition was growing worse, the S.M.A.R.T. system has been notifying you about it. To obtain this information in time and save your data from an unexpected failure, simply install Active SMART. Installing Active SMART, you protect your data!

What is S.M.A.R.T. technology for hard drives?

S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is implemented into all of the modern hard disks. A special program inside the disk constantly keeps tracking the condition of a range of the vital parameters: driver, disk heads, surface state, electronics, etc. At the present time, S.M.A.R.T. technology is able to predict up to 70% of all hard disk problems! However, to use this information, you firstly have to retrieve it from the disk and analyze it. This is one of the Active SMART program's tasks.
 Learn more about S.M.A.R.T. technology

Hard disk health status monitor

ActiveSMART is a hard drive health status monitoring and harddrive monitoring utility. It constantly checks the set of vital hard disk parameters to find our the disk Health status, Performance and Temperature - one of the most important hard drive characteristics.
 More about hard disk monitor

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/Windows 7

If you need to check status of SCSI hard drives, please use ActiveSMART SCSI version

See also: ActiveSMART features

User feedback

"Active SMART is the most useful product I have purchased in 20 years of technical computer involvement. A truely useful product."

Paul Ryan
Australia

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