Apricorn's SMART-ER Utility for Advanced Warning of Hard Drive Failures

Now, thanks to our revolutionary new SMART-ER utility, you’ll always know if your internal hard drives are working their best – or if pre-emptive action needs to be taken to safeguard your valuable data. By tapping into the S.M.A.R.T. Information already built into all modern IDE hard drives, SMART-ER monitors each drive’s operational status, and each volume's free space. Then, if conditions change, the user is instantly notifi ed by an on-screen or E-mail alert so that corrective action can be taken before the drive actually starts to fail. For maximum fl exibility, users can also run a manual status check at any time. SMART-ER is designed as a natural extension of the operating system; installs itself as a system tray icon and works in the background. And it’s the easiest and most reliable way to keep an eye on the health of your internal hard drives.

SO WHAT IS S.M.A.R.T.?

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, and was developed to give hard drive users an advance warning about possible future failures. S.M.A.R.T. monitors many aspects of a drive's health status, including spin-up time, spindle speed variance, seek errors and re-allocated sectors. Each drive manufacturer sets thresholds for each of these parameters, and when one is exceeded, a S.M.A.R.T. health status error is reported

• Compatible with S.M.A.R.T. hard drives (all modern IDE and Ultra ATA Hard drives.)
  
• Monitors the "health" of your hard drive by checking SMART status.
• Logs all errors and acknowledgements.
• E-mail Alerts - Instantly notifies a designated person of a potential drive problem.
  
• User-defined Free Space Setting (how much space left before you want to be alerted), and the polling period (how often to check the free space status.
• System tray utility - always available, unobtrusive to user.
• Pure Win32 API Code - Small and efficient system utility, uses less than 1MB of system resources.

Included in the following Apricorn Products:

• EZ Bus DT Family
• Aegis Portable
• Aegis Mini
• Aegis Bio
• Aegis Vault