Author: Admin 13 April 2009 Views: 266 Other

by : LAMEDRAGON 13 April 2009 Views: 266 Software

DriveSitter polls the S.M.A.R.T. HDD health status, up to 30 different HDD health related attributes and the HDD temperature on a regular basis and alerts you via message box, sound, network message or email of potential HDD failures before they happen. DriveSitter reliably forecasts up to 70% of all sudden HDD failures!

DriveSitter offers a lot of features - much more than we'll talk about right here:

S.M.A.R.T. attributes

DriveSitter polls up to 30 different HDD health related S.M.A.R.T. attributes per drive and shortly explains the meaning of most of the commonly known attributes.
For every attribute, a manufacturer defined threshold, the worst observed value as well as 6 special descriptive flags are displayed.

Auto-Check

Automatically check the S.M.A.R.T. status, the S.M.A.R.T. attributes and the HDD temperature in regular intervals to forecast up to 70% of sudden HDD failures or setup DriveSitter to make a quick check on Windows start and exit immediately.
Poll the HDD temperatures in independent, intelligent intervals.

Attribute Stock

DriveSitter manages up to 999 past S.M.A.R.T. attribute datasets for statistical analysis, descriptive statistical parameters (like mean, range, polling frequency) and graphical visualization. Stock data may also be exported for further analysis to easy-to-import tab-delimited format.

Volumes Info

Review information about your disk volumes like file system, capacity and free space with meaningful progress-style visualizations.

The volume information will be automatically updated on arrival or removement of a volume and whenever the amount of free space on a volume changes.

Raw Values

Raw S.M.A.R.T. attribute values can be interpreted for ease of use or displayed as raw hexadecimal values for advanced users.

Report it!

The content of any list output of DriveSitter can be copied to the Windows clipboard or be saved to a file - both either in easy-to-import tab-delimited format for further processing or as plain text.
Moreover, the main output lists can be sorted by any column and even by the background percentage visualization bars.

Updater

Stay up to date! Always get the most recent version of DriveSitter by its build-in automatic, scheduled internet updater. Download and install updates by the means of few mouse clicks.
If this is still too much, for example on unattended computer systems, the internet updater may be executed in a special "quiet" mode.

NoAdmin!

Run DriveSitter even on guest accounts to monitor your HDDs!
DriveSitter is the only S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic and monitoring application that does not need administrative privileges on Windows NT / 2000 / XP!

Diagnose at a Glance

Judge all S.M.A.R.T. attribute values at a glance by various selectable visualization modes of the actual S.M.A.R.T. attribute value in relation to its threshold.

Statistics

Display descriptive statistics of S.M.A.R.T. attributes (like mean, range) and advanced statistical details of T.E.C. calculation.

Alert Notifications

Execute various S.M.A.R.T. disk health alert notification actions:

• message box
• sound
• network messages
• emails
• execute programs
• shutdown / hibernate

All notification actions are separately configurable for each S.M.A.R.T. test and HDD.

Time Series

See how S.M.A.R.T. attribute values change over time by zoomable, impressive, meaningful time series graphics with threshold and estimated linear trendline.
If your HDD reports temperature, this graph additionally visualizes the raw temperature development.

Volumes of HDD

DriveSitter displays the volume letters of every device - so you'll know immediately which volumes are affected by an unhealthy HDD or an alert condition.

This unique feature is available on all supported Windows versions!

Autostart

Autostart DriveSitter with Windows to instantly protect your system. DriveSitter can be auto-started to the system tray or completely invisible.
Optionally, DriveSitter exits immediately after checking the health status of the HDDs and thus does not allocate any system resources.

Hidden or in Tray?

Setup DriveSitter to operate from the system tray or execute completely hidden to the users eyes.
The user may neither notice the HDD monitoring, nor alert notifications like emails or network messages.

Status Reports

Create scaleable HTML or plain-text status reports.
DriveSitter can create voluminous S.M.A.R.T. status reports in HTML or plain-text format with selectable content like S.M.A.R.T. attributes overview and the last test reports.
Moreover, pre-defined status reports can be automatically created to a remotely accessible file or on a network computer.
Placed on an internet server, the status reports can be monitored on the internet from all over the world.

HDD Temperature

Display and automatically check the HDD temperature for the life of your HDD and the sake of your data.
Graphically analyze how the HDD temperature evolves over time.
Display the HDD temperatures in the system tray.
Choose your favorite temperature unit out of the 5 commonly known scales.

Alert Logs

Log all alerts to a file on the local computer or in the network with automatic control for maximum filesize and attach the alert logfile to notification emails.
On Windows NT4 / 2000 / XP, alerts can additionally be logged to the one or more event logs. Multiple event logs of remote computers may also be used.
This is especially useful for companies as the system administrator can easily review the DriveSitter alerts of all computers in one central event log of e.g. a server.

Health Test

Setup various health tests for your HDDs to be automatically performed on the S.M.A.R.T. data:

• overall health status test
• device temperature test
• attribute limits test
• T.E.C. test
All health tests are separately configurable for each HDD.

Volume Details

Display additional details about the volumes known by the current operating system.

T.E.C. Estimation

Statistically analyze up to 999 datasets to provide most reliable estimation of Threshold Exceeded Condition dates while simultaneously minimizing false alarms.
Various simple and advanced user options like most remote forecast date (simple) or level of significance of correlation (advanced).
The unique feature of configurable T.E.C. alert thresholds make the T.E.C. estimation of DriveSitter even more powerful and prevents false alarms for attributes with high variation.

HDD Details

Display more than 130 details† of your HDDs like
• serial number
• firmware revision
• ATA/ATAPI version
• device geometry
• DMA and PIO
• modes and capabilities
• security settings
and many more...

† depends upon HDD provided information.

Help!

The extensive program help of DriveSitter covers an introduction to S.M.A.R.T., the user interface, health tests, alert notification actions, a technical discussion on T.E.C. date estimation, a F.A.Q. and more...
Furthermore, the help systems features an extensive index and a full text search.