AppShopper

DiskFailure

       Mac OS

DiskFailure has a single purpose, to warn you about a potential or imminent hard disk failure before the disk is rendered nonfunctional/data is lost.

It will warn you trough alert dialogs, growl notifications and the menubar icon, it also features a detailed list of your drives and the monitored parameters for each.

It also keeps track of these parameters trough all it's lifetime to provide a cumulative slate of past history for any storage device connected.

Any drive is considered nearing imminent failure when IO errors are detected, temperature*, bad blocks, drive starts and load cycles exceed certain thresholds.

HDD and SSD drives are handled differently but all are supported if connected either trough ATA/SATA USB/FireWire** (ThunderBolt drives are not supported yet).

The automatic check frequency is 11 minutes, however if the drive is sleeping*** it will not perform the SMART test as to not wake it up, it will also do this if it is not sleeping and the sleep timer for that specific drive is above 11 minutes as to not prevent it from sleeping, for manually triggered checks this does not apply.

* temperatures are in celsius
** macs can not get SMART information from external drives, only internal drives will also feature SMART details and checks.
*** drives that are sleeping show as grayed in the list, they are not SMART probed by the automatic check.

What's new

added support for drives that report temperature in fahrenheit

Screenshots

	Screenshot 1 of 1

Share with Others

Last changed:

Mar 24, 2012

Category:

Productivity

Developer:

Vlad Alexa

Version:

1.2

Average Rating:

3.00 (5)

Size:

0.6 MB

Other Apps By This Developer

• AirSay
• Applications
• FeedBoard
• GPSnote
• Loadables
• MagicTerminal
• NSMonitor
• SpeakTime
• TTScoreBoard
• TXTcrypt
• TXTcrypt
• VAinfo
• Vtrace