HD monitoring software?

JamalH · 8th September 2012, 12:41 PM

Hey all, looking for software (if it exists) that i can keep running in the ackground to keep an eye on my HD's to give me an early heads up if one is failing.

I read that Rapid Storage Technology does this, anyone got an ideas or can point me in the right direction?

I recently picked up the 8 bay Hotway USB 3.0 / E-Sata JBOD box and filled it up so would like to keep an eye on early failures etc to save data.

Hyram · 9th September 2012, 1:54 AM

Simple. Acronis Drive Monitor. Free. Sits an icon in your Notification Area and polls all connected drives (including external USBs and eSATAs) at user-specified intervals to quickly gather SMART status data, and will pop up an alert the moment anything starts looking even slightly suss.

Grab it. Now.

JamalH · 10th September 2012, 7:17 PM

Thanks for that mate.

cal0006 · 10th September 2012, 7:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyram

Simple. Acronis Drive Monitor. Free. Sits an icon in your Notification Area and polls all connected drives (including external USBs and eSATAs) at user-specified intervals to quickly gather SMART status data, and will pop up an alert the moment anything starts looking even slightly suss.

Grab it. Now.

I'm using just the bog standard Intel Rapid Storage Technology application that sits snuggly in my system tray. How does this compare to Acronis drive monitor?

Hyram · 10th September 2012, 9:46 PM

The Intel program can't read SMART data through interfaces that aren't Intel's, or conform to a particular spec, and can't be used on a machine that does not have an ICH controller. The Acronis program works with everything, including gathering SMART data trhough an AMD SB8xx chipset that is in AHCI mode (eg HP Microserver).

JamalH · 13th September 2012, 3:53 AM

This program wont recognize my JBOD of drives.

It only sees my 2 drives in my PC

LostBenji · 13th September 2012, 7:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hyram

Simple. Acronis Drive Monitor. Free. Sits an icon in your Notification Area and polls all connected drives (including external USBs and eSATAs) at user-specified intervals to quickly gather SMART status data, and will pop up an alert the moment anything starts looking even slightly suss.

Grab it. Now.

The exact reason I choose NOT to use software tools. Keeps drives running 24/7 and last thing to throw near a RAID array.

terrastrife · 15th September 2012, 10:12 AM

Windows will tell you when you have run into the trouble of remapping bad sectors, drives otherwise make spectacular noises when they are dying.

Besides this, it's really too random to have any tool tell you life expectancy, unless it's an SSD.

TRG.dOinK · 15th September 2012, 10:25 AM

HD Tune?
Run it when you want?

JamalH · 16th September 2012, 3:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by terrastrife

Windows will tell you when you have run into the trouble of remapping bad sectors, drives otherwise make spectacular noises when they are dying.

Besides this, it's really too random to have any tool tell you life expectancy, unless it's an SSD.

Will it also work with drives in an 8bay box with USB 3.0 in JBOD?

JamalH · 16th September 2012, 3:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TRG.dOinK

HD Tune?
Run it when you want?

Doesnt work with drives connected via USB

Edit - i found one that displays all my drives in the task bar and their health etc over USB 3.0 in my JBOD, its called Hard Disk Sentinel

T101 · 1st October 2012, 9:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamalH

Doesnt work with drives connected via USB

Edit - i found one that displays all my drives in the task bar and their health etc over USB 3.0 in my JBOD, its called Hard Disk Sentinel

yeaaah HD Sentinel is pretty dope, it will change windows explorer and show the drives as healthy or failed and also change them to EGA looking colours with how full or not they are. Scared me at first but once you close the program, it reverts back to normal.

8th September 2012, 12:41 PM	#1
JamalH Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,101	HD monitoring software? Hey all, looking for software (if it exists) that i can keep running in the ackground to keep an eye on my HD's to give me an early heads up if one is failing. I read that Rapid Storage Technology does this, anyone got an ideas or can point me in the right direction? I recently picked up the 8 bay Hotway USB 3.0 / E-Sata JBOD box and filled it up so would like to keep an eye on early failures etc to save data. __________________ Intel I-7 2600k \| Thermalrite MUX-120 \| Corsair Vengeance 16GB @1600 \| Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD \| ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Rev3 B3 \| ASUS ATI 4870x2 + Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME \| Corsair 1000HX \| Corsair 650D \| Logitech G500 \| Logitech G15 \| ASUS VE278Q LED \|

10th September 2012, 7:17 PM	#3
JamalH Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,101	Thanks for that mate. __________________ Intel I-7 2600k \| Thermalrite MUX-120 \| Corsair Vengeance 16GB @1600 \| Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD \| ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Rev3 B3 \| ASUS ATI 4870x2 + Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME \| Corsair 1000HX \| Corsair 650D \| Logitech G500 \| Logitech G15 \| ASUS VE278Q LED \|

13th September 2012, 3:53 AM	#6
JamalH Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,101	This program wont recognize my JBOD of drives. It only sees my 2 drives in my PC __________________ Intel I-7 2600k \| Thermalrite MUX-120 \| Corsair Vengeance 16GB @1600 \| Corsair Force 3 120GB SSD \| ASUS P8P67 Deluxe Rev3 B3 \| ASUS ATI 4870x2 + Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME \| Corsair 1000HX \| Corsair 650D \| Logitech G500 \| Logitech G15 \| ASUS VE278Q LED \|

15th September 2012, 10:12 AM	#8
terrastrife Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: ADL/SA The Monopoly State Posts: 16,022	Windows will tell you when you have run into the trouble of remapping bad sectors, drives otherwise make spectacular noises when they are dying. Besides this, it's really too random to have any tool tell you life expectancy, unless it's an SSD. __________________ D90/35mm1.8/SB900 Main/X58-USB3 F5/4GHz i7 950/48GB RipjawsZ/GTX 670/SSD 520 Series unRAID5/X2 4000+/30TB/16 Disk MidiTower/NeoHE

15th September 2012, 10:25 AM	#9
TRG.dOinK Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Melb East Posts: 2,886	HD Tune? Run it when you want? __________________ ... /\ . _\ /_ Mitsubishi \| Successful Trades: Suicidal, Nerotic, Chiefgc, Mr Chilled, Kooliez, Vortexkrow, Grandarcmaster, AT-AT ./_/ \_\ Motors... \| E8400, NZXT Hush, Corsair TX-750, Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R, 4GB DDR2 Corsair DHX, Asus 8800GTS 512, Auzentech Prelude Xfi, Seagate 7200.11 500GB 32mg cache

9th September 2012, 1:54 AM	#2
Hyram Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 717	Simple. Acronis Drive Monitor. Free. Sits an icon in your Notification Area and polls all connected drives (including external USBs and eSATAs) at user-specified intervals to quickly gather SMART status data, and will pop up an alert the moment anything starts looking even slightly suss. Grab it. Now.

10th September 2012, 9:46 PM	#5
Hyram Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 717	The Intel program can't read SMART data through interfaces that aren't Intel's, or conform to a particular spec, and can't be used on a machine that does not have an ICH controller. The Acronis program works with everything, including gathering SMART data trhough an AMD SB8xx chipset that is in AHCI mode (eg HP Microserver).