Monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive
DiskCheckup is a nice, free software only available for Windows, that belongs to the category Software utilities with subcategory Disk (more specifically Disk Analysis).
More about DiskCheckup
Since we added this program to our catalog in 2003, it has obtained 5,996 downloads, and last week it achieved 0 download.
About the download, DiskCheckup is a fairly light program that will not require as much free space than many programs in the category Software utilities.
The software version is 1.1.1005 and its last update happened on 6/26/2006. It's available for users with the operating system Windows 95 and former versions, and you can get it only in English.
PassMark DiskCheckup allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART monitors elements of possible long term drive failure, such as 'Spin Up Time', the number of start/stops, the number of hours powered on and the temperature.
DiskCheckup displays the current values of the SMART attributes, along with the Threshold value for that attribute. If any attribute value is close to or below the threshold, the drive is no longer reliable and should be replaced.
Note that SMART attributes change slowly over time and are helpful when diagnosing the life span of a particular drive. DiskCheckup also displays some additional drive information, such as the drive serial number, model number, the number of cylinders, tracks, the sectors per track, etc.
