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• #Softraid lite versus disk utility upgrade

Still worried? Get SMART Alec to re-test disks at any time. TEST YOUR DISK: SMART Alec will display a green bar by all disks that are healthy.FAILING DISK: If your disk is already failing, SMART Alec will tell you right away, giving you time to replace your disk and save your crucial data.PREDICTED-TO-FAIL DISK: If your disk is likely to fail in the near future, you’ll get a “predicted to fail” warning.SMART Alec Free Version – Basic Features: Instead of waiting for the drive to fail or just hoping it won’t happen, users rely on SMART Alec’s continual background disk monitoring to protect sensitive data –Why wait until a disk drive fails to take action? Daily back-ups to a secondary drive are also risky, since unknowingly you may be backing up data from an already corrupted drive or to another drive with problems. Once a drive fails, it can be virtually impossible or cost hundreds to thousands of dollars to reconstruct sensitive data through a computer technician or data recovery forensics company.

#Softraid lite versus disk utility upgrade

The free final version of SMART Alec and $9.99 upgrade with additional features will be available in July.ĭrives Frequently Fail - Why Wait Until a Disk Drive Fails to Take Action?Īlthough users expect hard drives to last forever, drives can frequently fail for numerous reasons, including overheating, power failures, surges from lightning strikes, water damage, and more. SMART Alec is currently available in beta at: /beta_test. SMART Alec can help you avoid losing years of sensitive, irreplaceable data from databases, word processing, Excel, PowerPoint and other business files, precious photos and videos, music compositions, and more. OWC has announced SMART Alec, an essential Mac utility that constantly monitors and checks your Mac hard drives, SSDs, Firewire disks, and USB drives, warning you in advance if drives are failing or about to fail, so you’ll have plenty of time to back up and replace a bad drive.