Active SMART for USB drives 2.6 is a Disk Management product from ariolic.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, If you want to check health status, temperature and many other vital parameters of hard drives connected through USB port then you can try Active SMART for USB drives. This version recognizes:

- USB hard drives (see Important note below)
- internal ATA/SATA hard drives
Protect your hard drive from a sudden failure. Use ActiveSMART. Install ActiveSMART to protect your PC from a possible data loss in case of an unexpected hard drive failure. Normally, the hard disk errors happen unexpectedly. How much would the hard disk information loss cost you
Does your hard drive - the heart of your PC, and storage of all your data - feels healthy

Save your system from a hard drive failure with ActiveSMART.
ActiveSMART is a realtime hard drive health status monitor. It 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 hard drive, before the danger of the data loss appears.

Key Benefits of ActiveSMART:
* Powerful hard drive health monitor
* Full support of hard drive S.M.A.R.T. technology
* Notebook power saving mode support. Use the same version of ActiveSMART on desktop PC and laptops!
* Detailed hard drive status reports
* Health, Performance, Free Space information for all your drives
* Hard drive Temperature monitor
* Scan for bad and unstable sectors on our hard drive
* Alerts if something wrong is about to happen with your hard drive!
* User friendly interface
And even more - with ActiveSMART you can check how old is your hard drive, how many read or write errors it collected, change the hard drive power mode or noise level and more..
Key Program Features:
* Realtime hard drive diagnostic
* S.M.A.R.T. disks technology support
* Alerts about hard drive health status changes
* Hard-drive temperature control to prevent disk overheating
* Hard drive Performance, Health, Temperature and Free Space indicators
* Set critical disk temperature and Active SMART will automatically save your work and suspend your PC in case of hard drive overheating
* Various types of alerts about disk state
* ActiveSMART is a Power-Aware software - it saves the battery power on notebooks in Power Saving modes
* Flexible settings
How does ActiveSMART 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 software 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.
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. The license of this file & disk software is Free Trial Software, the price is $23.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Active SMART for USB drives, you can buy this file & disk software.