Home Server SMART
Posted on 24. Jan, 2010 by Terry Walsh in Disk Management, Home Server Management
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Experience Level: Medium
Home Server SMART is a Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in that enables you to monitor the health of most of your hard disks attached to WHS. Home Server SMART examines the S.M.A.R.T. data exposed by your disks and determines the health of the disk. If problems are detected, Home Server SMART informs you which attribute(s) are critical or problematic, and it presents a summary of problems found. If the problems are serious, Home Server SMART will make a recommendation to you that you replace the disk.
Developer: Dojo North Software
More Info: Download | Support Forum
Release History
v1.0.1.21 (23rd January 2010)
- Initial release
coasttech
24. Jan, 2010
It does what it says it does and works at what its doing. I think this add-in is a must if you want to know some good info on your HDD’s. I found out one of my HDD’s had 3 bad sectors, thats good info to know!
Boontonflyer
26. Jan, 2010
Great Add In!! Does super job of giving disk parameter data including internal temp. It’s a “must have” especially with the temperature issues on the Acer H340. Spent better part of a day getting just some of this info by other methods (including temp. probe). This blows that data away in minutes.
Paul
ois
24. Feb, 2010
Just installed on my homeserver and a 1.5TB I bought about 6 months ago has 21 bad sectors. Shutting down now!
I bet this was the one that fell off the shelf!.
Excellent add in, could not thank you more.
man_on_the_hill
26. Feb, 2010
Have to agree with the above – installed on my home server, started looking at drives, and I had one looking bad. WIndows had no complaints about it – until I ran checkdsk, when things went south, fast (unable to replace bad sectors). Ultimately wound up trying to migrate stuff off so I could replace the disk, which was unsuccessful – long story short, lost all the client node backups on the server as a consequence of that disk failure. Ouch!
But all the clients are still happy, and they’re all now doing new backups to the server – so effectively no data lost, just older state. Share data wasn’t affected (I always enable folder duplication, don’t you?).