Program that monitors disk health?

[rawdawg]

So I finally have my backup solution that finally works. This involves having backups through CCC of each hard drive onto backup harddrives at night. I use TimeMachine for my system but need true backups for my media.

A few years ago I saw someone with a MBP who had an icon in his toolbar that told him when a drive was failing. This was handy at the time because someone from work gave us a external HDD to put media on and he recognized it was failing and was able to alert the person giving it to him.

I would like to know when one of my drives is going bad. All my drives are in Voyager Q docks which according to my "SpeedTools" program does not support SMART status.

Does anyone know a program that would be good for my needs?

 

[Intell]

Possibly SMARTReporter?

 

[rawdawg]

Possibly SMARTReporter?

But if my Voyager Q docks don't support SMART status wouldn't that not work?

 

[Intell]

But if my Voyager Q docks don't support SMART status wouldn't that not work?

Correct. In that case, nothing will be able to monitor disk health. Don't forget, SMART is only a rough estimate of disk health. A drive can still fail or be bad if the SMART passes. It can also still be used for many more years if the SMART fails without a problem as well.

 

[rawdawg]

Correct. In that case, nothing will be able to monitor disk health....

Thanks for the reply. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I've read a little about ProSoft Engineering's software DrivePulse which is part of Drive Genius 3. It sounded as if the program worked in the background detecting read/write errors. It doesn't sound in any way related to SMART.

If anyone has any experience with this program do they think this would be useful in the case where I don't have SMART support?

 

[Intell]

SMARTReporter does that as well. It check the kernel log for disk I/O errors.