SMART disk utilities

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I’m running SMART Defender which I got from IBM (apparently they recently sold their hard drive business to Hitachi so you get it there now). It’s a free download and it says it monitors SMART-capable IDE and SCSI hard drives so presumably it works with other makes too. I don’t know if it works - I hope I don’t find out, but it is reporting a healthy status on my disk at the moment. See http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#smart.