Your consumers' photos, your tourist videos, your diary and notebook, messages from friends, business information and documents - are you ready to lose it all at once 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 - feels healthy Imagine a world where the peripheral devices on your PC signaled you before they were going to fail thus, allowing you to backup that critical status report to your boss before the device went south. Yes you can. It is not a dream as long as you have a powerful and handy disk performance and usage monitor utility. Need not to find it here and there. I will commend an excellent disk monitors to you now. That is Active SMART which was published by Ariolic Software. Follow me and take your time to choice a favorite disk monitor yourself.

ActiveSMART is a hard drive health status monitoring and hard drive 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. Active SMART allows us to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. parameters of the hard disk to detect its fault condition. It uses special algorithms to predict the date of a possible drive failure. In addition, Active SMART provides us with full information about our hard disk. It has several testing modes and can be used at home for personal use as well as for large computer systems. Various monitoring modes and alerting options are available (local and remote). The built in messaging features allow for system administrators to be notified of impending hard disk failure on any machine on the network while local alerting can be configured to notify the user. An easy-to-use interface allows us to use Active SMART without any special technical knowledge. And even more - with ActiveSMART we can check how old is our hard drive, how many read or write errors it collected, change the drive power mode or noise level and more.

Following are some key features and benefits of ActiveSMART, including:

1. Active SMART is realtime hard drive diagnostic software. 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 disk, before the danger of the data loss appears.

2. Active SMART supports automatic disk check-up on system loading, constant tracking of the disks state with an interval varying from 1 minute to 99 hours, as well as performing a quick scan of the disks, in order to save the resources of the weaker machines.

3. Active SMART supports the drive thermal sensors and can be used to trace the drive temperature and prevent its overheating. The program notifies us if the disk temperature exceeds the pre-assigned value.

4. Active SMART is using all of the S.M.A.R.T. information available for the specified disk type. Various types of hard disks support different numbers of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes. In any case, Active SMART will show us and will use all of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes, supported by our disks.

5. Active SMART supports pop-up messages, e-mail and network messages to report any problems with the disks. The built-in messaging features allow the system administrators to get notified on an impending hard disk failure on any machine in the network, while the local alerting can be configured to notify the users separately

6. Active SMART can shutdown (enable hibernate mode) our PC automatically if the hard drive becomes too hot. This saves our important data and prevents the hard drive possible failure.

7. Moreover, Active SMART includes an internal mail (SMTP) client for sending out email alerts, even if there is no email software installed in the system. It contains flexible logging features, supports system Event log and many other useful capabilities.

In addition, Active SMART provides a free trial for us but only can be free used 30 days and some functions of it are disabled. It is standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. ActiveSMART does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with most recent variants of Windows and its current version is 2.6. The price of the registration version is only $24.95 and we can get update and upgrade free. With all these features, simple interface, excellent usability, low cost and free trial period - why are you still reading Install Active SMART to protect yourself from a possible data loss in case of an unexpected disk failure.

Active SMART allows you to monitor the S.M.A.R.T. parameters of the hard disk to detect its fault condition. It uses special algorithms to predict the date of a possible drive failure. In addition, Active SMART provides you with full information about your hard disk. It has several testing modes and can be used at home for personal use as well as for large computer systems. Various monitoring modes and alerting options are available (local and remote). The built in messaging features allow for system administrators to be notified of impending hard disk failure on any machine on the network while local alerting can be configured to notify the user. An easy to use interface allows users to use Active SMART without any special technical knowledge.
What's inside
* Hard drive diagnostic using SMART
* Disk health, performance & temperature monitor
* Detailed S.M.A.R.T. reports
* Hard drive overheating monitor
* Multiple alerting options and more!

ActiveSMART is an industry leading S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and failure prediction program for hard drives. It uses S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to monitor the health status of Hard Disk Drives, monitors the drives temperature, free space, bad blocks, read and write errors, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fails, using special algorithms.
Active SMART has several monitoring modes and is intended for both personal and extensive computer systems use. Various local and remote monitoring modes and alerting options are available.
Active SMART allows every hard drive in the system to be monitored 24 hours a day for faults, overheating or other hazardous factors that may lead to a crash. In case of error detection, there is a range of alerting options available: local (pop up messages, sound) and remote (e-mail or network messenger).
Use the same version of ActiveSMART on notebooks and desktop PC. It support power saving mode and save battery life.
No special technical skills are required in order to use Active SMART.
ActiveSMART is a universal protection and health monitoring for your hard drive.

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

Key features of Active SMART:
* Realtime hard drive status monitoring
Active SMART supports automatic disk check-up on system loading, constant tracking of the disks state with an interval varying from 1 minute to 99 hours, as well as performing a quick scan of the disks, in order to save the resources of the weaker machines.
* Avoid lost of your important data due to hard drives overheating
ActiveSMART supports the hard drive thermal sensors and traces the drive temperature to prevent its overheating. You will receive alerts or the system will be automatically turned into the Sleep mode if the disk temperature exceeds the pre-assigned value.
* See at glance Performance, Health, Temperature and Free Space of all your hard drives
* Hard drive Health Status Summary information
* Check the hard drive age
* Check amount of bad and reallocated blocks on the hard drives
* See if the disk has unstable sectors that going to fail. You will have the time to save your data
* Full support for hard drive S.M.A.R.T. attributes
Active SMART monitors the status of all S.M.A.R.T. attributes the hard drive supports. Also, the prorgam contains information for every S.M.A.R.T. attribute with direct access to the online S.M.A.R.T. attributes library at www.ariolic.com
* Hard drive health status events logging
* S.M.A.R.T. attributes lifetime chart
You can check the S.M.A.R.T. attribute lifetime using nice graphical chart.
* Hard drive health status events logging
* S.M.A.R.T. attributes lifetime chart
You can check the S.M.A.R.T. attribute lifetime using nice graphical chart.
* S.M.A.R.T. attribute value changes logging
* Support for all hard drive manufactures
Various types of hard drives support different sets of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes. Using Active SMART you can trace the hard drive health status from different manufacturers.
* Several types of the hard drive health status alerts
The software supports pop-up messages, Email and network messages to report about any problems with the disks.
* Quick scan of the disk surface
A quick scan mode allows evaluating the disk surface at one glance.
* Emergency system shutdown in case of hard drive overheating
Active SMART will suspend (using Hibernate mode) your PC automatically if the hard drive becomes too hot. This saves your important data and prevents the hard drive possible failure.
* Previewing the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes
This feature allows obtaining useful information, such as how many hours has the disk been working or the number of read/write errors etc.
* The built-in messaging features allow the system administrators to get notified on an impending hard disk failure on any machine in the network, while the local alerting can be configured to notify the users separately
Moreover, Active SMART includes an internal mail (SMTP) client for sending out email alerts, even if there is no email program installed in the system. It contains flexible logging features, supports system Event log and many other useful abilities.
* Previewing more then 25 of the manufacturer parameters of the disk
* Creating detailed reports about the disks state
* User-friendly interface allows the users to operate Active SMART without any special technical knowledge
Enjoy its simple and handy interface.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $24.95, you can free download and get a free trial.