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 SMART Disk Monitor which was published by Corner Bowl Software. Follow me and take your time to choice a favorite disk monitor yourself.

SMART Disk Monitor is a Windows-specific utility that monitors our disk hardware with the goal of identifying disks that have a strong possibility if crashing. SMART Disk Monitor enables us to monitor local and networked disks and receive email alerts when the disk space usage reaches a certain threshold. It can monitor shares share and display usage by directory or number of files. We can also generate graphical statistics in form of standard pie or graph charts, and export reports to .csv format or send them via email on a regular schedule. Overall a basic monitoring solution that is limited to email alerts and few S.M.A.R.T details, other than disk failure. It will alert us when our disk reaches capacity, but not if it is overheating.

Following are the key features and benefits of SMART Disk Monitor:

1. Event Notification - The SMART Disk Monitor has an imbedded e-mail engine which will send an appropriate e-mail message to the administrator of our choice which will have the specific drive, error message and time stamp of the event. We can even send test messages, and have a special header to indicate an automated message. If we have a TCP/IP connection, the software will use it, if we access our mail server via modem, then the software will automatically dial out and connect to it if need be, providing our dialer automatically enters our username and password.

2. Automated Actions - In an event of a predictive drive failure, then a user-configurable automated script will start up. This script can be used to begin a backup procedure, or invoke some other error recovery or notification procedure.

3. Event Filtering - Editable ASCII filter file lets us control sense the sense key, code and qualifier combinations that would generate an e-mail notification. We can also control them by specific by adapter, SCSI ID, and LUN. Wildcards and ranges are supported.

4. Detailed Sense Code Information - Log and mode sense information is manufacturer and model-specific. SMART Disk Monitor have an editable ASCII database that cross-references the cryptic codes into the specific text. If our drive is not in the database, then it will have a generic message, such as "Predictive Failure Analysis Threshold Reached on Recovered Error". If our drive is in our database, we may also get a trailer that adds, "Fly Height Change Problem, Recommend Device Replacement".

5. Reported Vital Product Data - Regardless of the make or model of disk, we will be able to access the following information on all devices - manufacturer; drive model; SCSI device type; firmware revision level; transfer size (8-bit,16-bit,32-bit, or serial); Removable Medium Y/N; and lots of information pertaining to the predictive failure (S.M.A.R.T.) capability. We can now also view the primary partition tables on our disk drives.

6. Advanced Vital Product Data - This information is drive specific, and is currently available on over 100 makes and models.

7. Statistical Information - This information is drive specific, and is currently available on most IBM and Seagate disks.

8. Caching Parameters - Lets us view exactly how the cache and buffers are configured. We can also enable or disable 12 different cache-related settings, including enabling our disk's write cache, and controlling maximum and minimum of read-ahead blocks.

9. Exception Handling - In addition to enabling S.M.A.R.T., we can control the disk's informational timers, exception testing, error logging, and performance when running internal diagnostics.

10. Mode Page Editor - The mode page editor lets us view all mode pages defined for a particular disk, and make changes to current and default pages.

11. Miscellaneous - True Low-level formatter which lets us ether keep or destroy the grown defect list, read sense codes, read all inquiry pages, read raw sectors, read partition tables, load, unload, lock, and unlock devices with removable media.

In addition, SMART Disk Monitor provides a free trial for us but only can be free used 30 days and some functions of it are disabled. It is a standalone software and does not need any extra software and hardware requirement. SMART Disk Monitor does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with Win NT/2000/XP only and its current version is 7.0.0.30. The price of the registration version is only $99.95 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 Download the free trial now and experience what powerful and effective it is at once!

SMART Disk Monitor is a network wide drive space monitor tool enabling Systems Administrators to centrally monitor disk utilization, SMART predictive failure notifications, directory sizes, user access permissions, file extension break down, and recently accessed files.
SMART Disk Monitor Features:
* Monitors disk utilization, SMART predictive disk failure notifications, and online status.
* Sends fully customizable email alerts to system administrators.
* Schedule executive summary reports that include disk utilization and SMART status for multiple computers and disks.
* Graphically displays multiple disks' utilization percentage.
* Stores and graphically displays disk utilization over time. Historical data is stored in CSV format optimized for Microsoft Excel.
* Monitor directory sizes and send fully customizable email notifications to users and customers.
* Create directory and file access permission reports simplifying Sarbanes Oxley auditing of mission critical data access.
* Generate file extension break down reports.
* Identify recently or rarely accessed files using our recently accessed files reports.
* Sub-directory size reports enable system administrators to quickly identify large or growing sub-directories.
* Automatically publish reports to your Intranet web server.
* Group computers by logical groups.
* Includes tray icon status.
* Sends email notification when drive monitors fail.
* Supports SMTP authentication.
* No installation requirements on managed computers or devices.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, the price is $49.95, you can free download and get a free trial.