mac-kurzundgut: SMARTReporter 2.5.3 - Hard drive pre-failure warning utility. (Free)

Dienstag, 21. September 2010

SMARTReporter 2.5.3 - Hard drive pre-failure warning utility. (Free)

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SMARTReporter 2.5.3

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an 'early warning system' for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn't mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors - it's just a very valuable indicator.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 2.5.3:

IMPORTANT BUGFIX: finally fixed the I/O error checking option to be high performance and crash-free - if you previously had to disable the option or it turned itself off, you can turn it on again in the preferences.
Fixes for e-mail sending using custom settings (only PLAIN authentication was supported between 2.5.0 and 2.5.2)
Keychain integration for the e-mail password when using e-mail sending with custom settings
Fix a problem where sending e-mails could take up to a few minutes
Improved 'Growl'-integration
SMARTReporter\'s code is now signed with a digital certificate
Fixed German localisation (thanks to Oliver Gumprecht)
Extended the localization capabilities

REQUIREMENTS