SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an “early warning system” for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple. Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn’t mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors – it’s just a very valuable indicator.
- IMPORTANT: The minimum system requirements have been raised to Mac OS X 10.5
- IMPORTANT: Do not directly upgrade from a release older than 2.3.5, or your preferences won’t be taken over
- IMPORTANT: If you are (also) using e-mail notification of disk-failures through Mail.app, please check that it is still working
- Added 64-bit support (on Intel), but by defaults starts in 32-bit mode. To change this use the “Get Info” panel in the Finder on SMARTReporter
- Rewrote the e-mail sending through Mail.app
- Fixed the CrashReport sending facility to only send “real” crashes
- Fixed links to the Apple feedback page in the documentation
- Fixed a bug where adding or removing a harddisk would cause SMARTReporter to believe it has been freshly installed
- Fixed the update-check, which would still check for updates even if disabled (sorry!)
- Make Finder keyboard-shortcuts work directly after dismissing the preferences-window
- Expanded the FAQ
At least one ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drive
