Active SMART

Active SMART 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 disk, before the danger of the data loss appears.

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

Key Features

• S.M.A.R.T. disks technology support
• Notifications about all of the changes made to the hard disks' status
• Hard-drive temperature control to prevent disk overheating 
• Hard drive Performance, Health and Temperature indicators
• Set critical disk temperature and Active SMART will automatically save your work and shutdown your PC in case of hard drive overheating
• Various types of warnings about disk state
• Flexible settings
• and many more...

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Active SMART 2.6 release notes 

How does Active SMART work?

Active SMART
is not installed

If Active SMART 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

Active SMART
is installed

If Active SMART 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 Active SMART 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.
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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

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

See also: Active SMART features

Current version:
    ActiveSMART 2.6

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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