Do you have S.M.A.R.T. hard drives? You probably do, this acronym stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, and has been standard in hard drives for a while now. It enables the monitoring of a hard drive at a low level with an eye to predicting when something serious is in the offing. Among the thing it keeps an eye on are: faulty sectors, CRC errors, head gap, temperature and spin-up times.

HDD Heath is a hard drive monitoring utility which keeps an eye on your drives, reporting any potential problems. It promises to sit in your system tray, using no system resources and let you know when you might need to do something. Forewarned is forearmed.

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