User Guide

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
preemptive 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 and SATA hard drives, SMART-ER monitors each drive’s operational
status, and each volume's free space. Then, if conditions change, the user
is instantly noti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 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
utility 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.
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● Compatible with
S.M.A.R.T hard
drives
● Monitors the
"health" of your
hard drive
● E-mail alerts
● Adjustable
polling period
● Logs all errors and
acknowledgements
● User-dened
free space
setting
● System
tray utility
● SMART-ER
off-line
diagnostic
test
● Pure Win32
API code
● Supports
Windows
NT/2000/2003/
XP / Vista
SMART ERROR REPORTING