HDD Guardian alert in case of imminent failure, temperature threshold or vital parameter change.
The purpose of HDD Guardian is to provide a graphical interface to smartctl, part of the S.M.A.R.T.
HDD Guardian requires .NET Framework 4.0 and is actually tested on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7.
Main Features:
- automatic translation (if language files doesn't exists, it load automatically english). Available languages: english, italian and hungarian;
- easy device overview, with temperature, last test result, overall health and bad sectors indication;
- display an optional icon into the tray area for each fixed device;
- HDD Guardian tray icon change shield color if a device is failing;
- automatically export smartctl output into a specified folder;
- monitor virtual devices loaded from a shared smartctl output;
- displays device identity information;
- perform self-test and displays their results;
- allow enabling/disabling S.M.A.R.T., automatic offline data collection (an automatic test performed by device every four hours) and autosave of vendor-specific attributes;
- displays attributes informations and graphs;
- displays device capabilities;
- displays device error log;
- allow to set device-specific tolerance, attribute format and firmware debug;
- allow to set warnings behaviour.