Active Smart for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By Ariolic Software

Monitor the health status of your hard drive and check disk space usage.

ActiveSMART is a well known hard drives diagnostic and disk space audit tool.

It uses S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) to monitor the health status of Hard Disk Drives, monitors the drives temperature, free space, bad blocks, read and write errors, prevents data loss and predicts possible drive fails, using special algorithms.

Keep track on your files and folder and find files wasting your disk space. Just use Disk Space Analyzer feature of ActiveSMART.

Active SMART has several monitoring modes and is intended for both personal and extensive computer systems use. Various local and remote monitoring modes and alerting options are available.

Active SMART allows every hard drive in the system to be monitored 24 hours a day for faults, overheating or other hazardous factors that may lead to a crash. In case of error detection, there is a range of alerting options available: local (pop up messages, sound) and remote (e-mail or network messenger).

Use the same version of ActiveSMART on notebooks and desktop PC. It support power saving mode and save battery life. No special technical skills are required in order to use Active SMART. ActiveSMART is a universal protection and health monitoring for your hard drive.

Active Smart for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: January 15, 2020

Latest update: January 15, 2020

Version: 2.11

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Windows 8
Windows Server
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 137,442

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

3.8/5

33 User Votes

ActiveSMART got even better
Daniel_LJuly 24, 2013
Pros
I use it already for 6 years and it has saved me already few times.. I think that already worth having it on your PC silently running and tracking the status of your drive.
Cons
Nothing bad
Summary
If files on your hard drive are important for you then grab and install ActiveSMART.
I just say - it rocks!
MikeVerryJuly 21, 2013
Pros
- Simple to use - Great status about hard disk - Disk space usage feature - File shredder
Cons
Doesn't support all my USB drives
Summary
It's a must have for every PC.
Looks good but fails to deliver
PLSM5882June 5, 2011
Pros
Good clean easy to use interface, easy to understand, good alerting
Cons
Has yet to successfully predict a failure for me, does not work on external drives be it eSATA or USB (the USB version does not integrate with the non-USB one, in fact they seem to conflict)
Summary
Active SMART looks good, has an easy to use UI, but has so far failed to predict hard drive failures. When they have happened the HD health has always been displayed as Good by Active SMART. It does not seem to be able to monitor external drives, be it eSATA or USB, which is a problem. I know there is a USB Active SMART but it does not integrate with the normal Active SMART and that makes it almost useless. If those bits could be sorted out this would be a very useful tool indeed.
Useful program and really easy to use!
bluemonday311January 23, 2011
Pros
-ease of use -features -very little use of system resources
Cons
nothing really
Summary
I was curious to see the shape of my hard drive. And so I installed Active Smart. Good thing I did, because my hard drive was ready to crash. I did replace it on time. The best part about replacing it before it dies out is that you can clone your current hdd. This helps if you don't have the operating system CD-ROM. If you wait too long, and the hard drive dies, then you need to purchase the operating system. Active Smart helps you in giving you the current state of your hard drive. The interface is neat, and easy to use. Temperature, power-on hours, and a disk health status are just few of the features offered by the program. I use it, and recommend it!
Useful, clear and stable
Daniel_LAugust 11, 2010
Pros
It really helps and doesn't consume resources
Cons
I'd like to have an error scan
Summary
See everything about your HDD + monitoring
arie11111July 11, 2010
Pros
Good and friendly GUI. Comfortable to use. Continuous HDD state monitoring.
Cons
Not free. To simple overview tab - I would place there more parameters.
Summary
I used it to check new WDC HDD (2Tb) and I found several problems due to Active SMART. I am planning to replace the drive because I am going to store there valuable data. Thanks to developers of Active SMART for 30-days trial period!!
Good Way for the Computer To Watch Your HDD's Fry
alm1024November 16, 2009
Pros
It gives you a nice graph showing the trended temperature and for each of the smart parameters. You can see how the HDD's reach their peak temperature in the hot afternoons and cool down at night.
Cons
Doesn't work too well with a Raid Controller, It was able to see one of my pass-through drives but not the other. My five HDD's reached 55 DegC & they were almost too hot to touch! Activesmart monitored the whole thing but didn't actually intervene.
Summary
Overall the program works well as a trending tool but fails to act if things start getting hairy such as high temperatures or high read/write fail counts. As I said my four WD 1TB HDD's and one Seagate 500GB reached a peak of 55 DegC before my CPU got too hot and the computer locked up. I came home and my living room was extremely hot and found that my computer had hung. I then opened my case up and found five extremely hot hard drives (mostly my fault because I put them one on top of each other and thought a small 8cm fan would keep them cool). I was very disappointed with Activesmart as I was just nearing the end of the trial period and thinking of buying the product until this happened. I ask you, what's the point of a monitoring tool if it does not act and shut things down to protect the very components it is monitoring? Not very active or smart! Another down fall is that it could only see one of the pass-through drives out of two in my four disk raid array. I have two pass-throughs and a mirrored drive and activesmart shows the second pass-through and mirrored drives as identical to the first pass through (in serial number, temperature, and all of the smart parameters). There are better programs out there guys and gals! Do a search on wiki on SMART technology and it will have a link showing you all the available programs, this one has considerably less features then some other great tools out there.
This software works!
Daniel_LAugust 28, 2009
Pros
Nice software! At least you can install it to be sure in your hard drive. Do not forget, that all your data on your hard drives.
Cons
No cons found
Summary
Recommend to everyone
One of the best programs on my PC
Tolyan-73May 14, 2009
Pros
Professional tool that gives me full information concerning my hard drives, it does not require any tech approach and also light (almost invisible) on system resources.
Cons
No cons at all, and I use it quite a long time.
Summary
This prog is a must-have one for every PC user who is concerned about the health of his/her hard disks. This tool is such sensitive you can check just by drinking a cup of hot tea in front of your laptop monitor as the temperature shown from your taskbar will go up from 38* to 40*. Definitely cost it's price. Highly recommend.
Cannot imagine my PC without ActiveSMART
TechMike76May 9, 2009
Pros
I know what is the status of my hard drives. My data must be in safe, that's why I use ActiveSMART for more them 2 years
Cons
Want more features )
Summary
Recommend to everyone.