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Stellar Smart - Monitor Hard Drive Performance
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Version
2.2.1
Stellar Smart is a utility that acts as an "early
warning system" for pending hard disk problems. The
system is based on Self-Monitoring Analysis and
Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T). The hard disk's
integrated controller works with various sensors to
monitor various aspects of the drive's / disk's
performance and determines from this information if the
disk is behaving normally or not. File system data
structures of a drive have suffered serious corruption
or overwriting and data recovery software cannot scan
such drives. The fundamental principle behind
S.M.A.R.T is that many problems with hard disks don't
occur suddenly. They result from a slow degradation of
various mechanical or electronic components. The hard
disks parameters usually exhibit a gradual, detectable
decline in performance and it is when a parameter value
approaches its safety limit that the Stellar Smart
issues a warning. Key Features: Runs constantly in the
background, thereby providing real-time information
about the condition of the hard drive / disk(s).
Provides standard hard disk information such as
Serial/Model Number, Number of cylinders, and so on.
Provides information on various hard disk attributes
and also displays their fitness level. Able to scan and
display bad sectors on hard disk(s). Scheduler to
configure software parameters such as Temperature
Warning, Temperature Update, and Log Scheduling.
Maintains log reports of disk scans, disk status. Can
clone hard disks (that is, it can paste the contents of
a potentially fatal disk onto a healthy disk). Provides
graphical comparison of temperature fluctuations in
relation to warning / shutdown levels. Displays real
time 'Benchmark' graph showing the Hard Disk data
transfer rate and CPU usage. Can test any IDE/SATA
disk. Simple and easy to use, with no loss in system
performance.
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