SIGuardian 1.7 beta build 361

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

It won't fix your system if something goes wrong, but this utility is great at giving real-time information about the health of your hard drive. SIGuardian's interface is pretty basic, but its well-organized tabs simplify the viewing of comprehensive hard-drive details, SMART values, and options. The taskbar icon displays your hard drive's current temperature and the 15 SMART attributes, including threshold, worst, and raw values. Simple indicators tell you the status of each attribute, making it easy to identify those performing below the optimum level. Pop-up warnings and e-mail reports are also nice touches for safeguarding your system. Aside from the detailed help file, we appreciate the user-friendly pop-up explanations that appear each time the mouse pointer hovers over an attribute. By default, SIGuardian analyzes your hard drive every hour, though you can modify it to suit your tastes. This handy and effective tool can help computer-savvy users monitor their hard drives for potential issues.

Publisher's description

From PalickSoft :

SIGuardian is a tool that allows you to fully control the health of your hard disk drives and prevents data loss because of failures. Using S.M.A.R.T. technology included in all modern HDDs, SIGuardian predicts the end date of HDD lifetime, so you can make a backup copy of all your data. Only SIGuardian can show all of the information about S.M.A.R.T.--attribute values, worst and threshold values... SIGuardian supports hard drive temperature monitoring and prevent your disk from overheating.

Version 1.7 features new localization engine and new setup engine.

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