SMARTReporter is a free, open-source program that uses S.M.A.R.T. to check the health status of the drives on your Mac device hourly by default or by at set interval. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) is your last line of defense when your hardware components are slowly packing up. S.M.A.R.T. warns you of a coming hardware crash, and this gives you the opportunity to quickly run a last minute backup of your files so that you do not lose any important documents whenever your hard drive finally crashes. Mac OS X already comes with an option that allows you to use S.M.A.R.T. to monitor the health status of your drives, but it only works whenever you use the Disk Utility option to check a disk status. SMARTReporter works better by displaying an icon to give you an idea of your drive’s status, whether its green or red and it can also show you an alert or send you an e-mail, and even automatically execute an application if it detects a problem.
SMARTReporter is a program that warns you of an impending hard disk drive failure before they actually happen. It can run continuously in the background and periodically polls the status of your hard disk drive at set intervals. It works as an early warning system for pending hard disk problems. SMARTReporter uses various means like E-mail, displaying an alert dialog, executing an application, etc., to notify you of the looming hard disk failures for you to take necessary actions to back up your data.
SMARTReporter supports popular drives like ATA, SATA, and eSATA drives, and also works with Growl for notifications, as well as the iOS Growl client Prowl so you can get drive failure notifications on your iPhone device. It offers full support for Mac OS X 10.10 or later. Due to the huge file size, the download might take some time. SMARTReporter is still considered to be very useful in preventing data loss. I will greatly recommend SMARTReporter to any Mac user that has a lot of important files on their system that they cannot afford to lose.
