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 SIGuardian which was published by PalickSoft. Follow me and take your time to choice a favorite disk monitor yourself.

SIGuardian is a disk utility that checks and monitors the status of our hard drives to help prevent data loss. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern hard disks, SIGuardian analyzes and calculates the date our hard disk will reach its Threshold Exceeded Condition (T.E.C.), when keeping data on it will no longer be safe, so that we can pro-actively back up all of the data on that disk. Checking the disks at system startup so it does not use memory while we work, SIGuardian shows all S.M.A.R.T. statistics both graphically and numerically, including Raw Attribute Values, Worst Attribute Values, and Threshold Values of Attributes. Residing in the system tray, SIGuardian can be quickly brought to life in order to run a T.E.C. simulation on a selected hard drive. SIGuardian supports multi-lingual interface and now it translated to more than 5 languages.

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

1. Using unique combination of S.M.A.R.T. standard system and other algorithms, SIGuardian can predict end date of our hard disk lifetime. We can find it on "S.M.A.R.T." tab. But remember - for it initial calculations we must wait for change of any S.M.A.R.T. attribute (SIGuardian will reports about it).

2. SIGuardian combines power of modern technologies and easy-to-use interface. Beginners can use "Normal" mode and look only at "S.M.A.R.T." tab to know date of nearest prognosis T.E.C. - the end date of hard disk lifetime. Advanced users can choose "Advanced" mode and look in detail S.M.A.R.T. attribute info at "S.M.A.R.T. details tab" to know at that hard disk part fail may occurs.

3. We can check our hard disks only at system startup - so, SIGuardian do not use computer memory while we work. This mode is especially useful if we boot our computer everyday - for example, at work. Ones a day check - is almost enough in most cases.

4. For most important cases - for example, servers or important workstations, we can setup constantly monitoring of hard disk health status - SIGuardian will be minimized to system tray and will check disks status every hour (on any other time period that we choose).

5. SIGuardian is the only tool that allows us to look at real values of S.M.A.R.T. attributes and make our own prognosis about hard disk status.

6. We can select which S.M.A.R.T. attributes to monitor and disable control of some of them. For example, this is useful for IBM hard disks - it shows drive temperature in S.M.A.R.T., so this attribute change very often.

7. We can see full information about our hard disk - which ATA/ATAPI standards it supports, what data transfer modes can be used with this disk and much other technical information about our disk, not accessible in usual way.

In addition, SIGuardian 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. SIGuardian does not contain any adware or spyware. It works with most recent variants of Windows and its current version is 1.7.361. 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 SIGuardian to protect yourself from a possible data loss in case of an unexpected disk failure.

Learn about HDD failure BEFORE it happens and save your valuable data. SIGuardian uses S.M.A.R.T technology built in every modern hard-drive to accurately predict the date when using a particular hard-drive is no longer safe. S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology. Every time the hard-drive is started, it performs a self-checkup and records a certain value for each of its attributes (properties). The values range between 0 (non-functioning) to 250 (outstanding condition). The average value for most attributes is 100. When the safety threshold is crossed (20 for most attributes), it means that a hard-drive is unstable and you should back up your data. SIGuardian displays all HDD attribute values, whether they are safe and not, real-time. This software is also capable of monitoring HDD temperature and alerting you over the network or via Email when overheating or failure possibility is diagnosed. You don?t have to monitor HDD condition ?the software can do it itself. The software works in two modes. The first one is attribute check upon startup. In this mode, the software compares previous attribute values to the new ones and, if the are unchanged, automatically closes itself. Likewise, if SIGuardian discovers that some attribute value is lower, you will be alerted. In the second mode, this program application is continuously running and checks for the attribute values periodically according to the user specified intervals.

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