It works with Thunderbolt, USB and FireWire protocols and it warns you when things are about to fall apart.įor example, this screen shot, from the SMART Alex website, illustrates what it looks like when disks start to go bad.Ĭlick the Drive Details tab to learn more about your drives. It can monitor Apple Fusion drives, external SSDs and spinning media. SMART Alec has exactly one screen, listing your hard disks on the left, with a color bar that indicates their status: I downloaded the beta version and ran it on my system. That was the reasoning for creating SMART Alec – a dead-easy tool you can use to monitor your drives. If you run SoftRAID, it indicates the SMART status of each drive in your system. Their storage expertise is highly respected.
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They’ve been creating RAID software for the Mac for over 15 years.
SoftRAID was founded in 1996 to provide high quality storage solutions for the Mac OS. SoftRAID is the development team behind SMART Alec. SMART “is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) that detects and reports on various indicators of drive reliability, with the intent of enabling the anticipation of hardware failures.” (Wikipedia) data ( Self- Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) that every hard disk maintains. SMART Alec was invented to give you a heads-up so that you can replace a drive before it fails. With SMART Alec’s advanced warning, you’ll have plenty of time to replace a bad disk and keep your data safe.” (Smart Alec website)Īll hard disks fail, it’s just a question of when. “SMART Alec works in the background, constantly monitoring & checking your disks, and warning you if any disks are faulty, or about to fail.
NOTE: Tim gave me permission to write about the beta version which is free.
I’m running the beta version now and it could not be easier to use plus, it’s reassuring to have this utility warn me if my data is at risk. At the Creative Storage Conference last week, Tim Standing, CTO of SoftRAID, told me about a beta version of their new utility that warns you before your hard disks fail: SMART Alec.
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