Active Smart v2.42 retail

S.M.A.R.T. stands for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology. It was developed by a number of major Hard Disk Drive Manufacturers in a concerted effort to increase the reliability of drives. It is a technology that enables the PC to predict the future failure of hard disk drives. S.M.A.R.T. technology has become an industry standard for hard drive manufacturers. The S.M.A.R.T. system does just what its name implies it does. It monitors the drive for anything that might seem out of the ordinary, documents it, and analyzes the data. If it sees something that indicates a problem, it is capable of notifying the user (or, if applicable, system administrator). S.M.A.R.T. monitors the disk's performance, bad sectors, calibration, CRC errors, disk spin up time, distance between the head and the disk, temperature, features of medium, heads, motor or servomechanism. In all, over 35 attributes are covered by S.M.A.R.T. The errors that the system can detect can be predicted by a number of methods. Currently the SMART system can detect around 70% of all hard drive errors. For example, motor and/or bearing failure can be predicted by an increase in the drive spin-up time and the number of retries it takes to succeed in spinning up the drive. Or, if the drive notes that the error correction is being used excessively, it can attribute this to a broken drive head or contamination, and alert before the problem gets worse.



Armed with a failure prediction, the user or system manager can back up key data, replace a suspect device prior to data loss, or avoid undesired downtime.
Active SMART utilizes S.M.A.R.T. technology to monitor your hard drive's internal S.M.A.R.T. attributes and drive temperatures, predict possible drive fail and prevent data loss. Using your notification settings, Active SMART lets you know about a potential disk health problem before you lose valuable data. Active SMART allows every disk in the system to be monitored for faults and potential failure 24 hours for a day for things that may lead to a crash. If a fault is detected, you are notified with various local alerting options or you can enable remote notifications via e-mail or other network mail applications with the drive ID and the time of the first fault. Active SMART uses special algorithms to predict the fail date of the drive.

Active SMART works on Windows95(OSR2), Windows98, Windows ME, Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server systems.


Active SMART is a S.M.A.R.T. system compliant software.

Main features :

- Various types of controlling the hard disks state
Active SMART supports automatic disk check-up on system loading, constant tracking of the disks state with an interval varying from 1 minute to 99 hours, as well as performing a quick scan of the disks, in order to save the resources of the weaker machines.

- Active SMART can be used to prevent the hard drives overheating
The program supports the drive thermal sensors and can be used to trace the drive temperature and prevent its overheating. The program notifies you if the disk temperature exceeds the pre-assigned value.


- Active SMART is using all of the S.M.A.R.T. information available for the specified disk type
Various types of hard disks support different numbers of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes. In any case, Active SMART will show you and will use all of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes, supported by your disks.

- Supporting various types of notifying the user or the system administrator
The program supports pop-up messages, e-mail and network messages to report any problems with the disks.

- Quick scan of the disk state
A quick S.M.A.R.T. scan mode allows evaluating the disk state at one glance.

- Previewing the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes
This feature allows obtaining useful information, such as how many hours has the disk been working or the number of read/write errors etc.

- The built-in messaging features allow the system administrators to get notified on an impending hard disk failure on any machine in the network, while the local alerting can be configured to notify the users separately

- Moreover, Active SMART includes an internal mail (SMTP) client for sending out email alerts, even if there is no email software installed in the system. It contains flexible logging features, supports system Event log and many other useful capabilities.

- Active SMART supports specific notification settings for every SMART attribute or common settings for all attributes. If your system contains several hard drives you can flexible set up different notification settings for every drive.

- Active SMART supports specific notification settings for every SMART attribute or common settings for all attributes
You can trace only specific drive parameters (attributes), for example disk Temperature and Write Error Count. The program supports unique notification settings for every S.M.A.R.T. attribute.


Active SMART main features

Various types of controlling the hard disks state

Active SMART supports automatic disk check-up on system loading, constant tracking of the disks state with an interval varying from 1 minute to 99 hours, as well as performing a quick scan of the disks, in order to save the resources of the weaker machines.

Active SMART can be used to prevent the hard drives overheating

The program supports the drive thermal sensors and can be used to trace the drive temperature and prevent its overheating. The program notifies you if the disk temperature exceeds the pre-assigned value.


Active SMART is using all of the S.M.A.R.T. information available for the specified disk type

Various types of hard disks support different numbers of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes. In any case, Active SMART will show you and will use all of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes, supported by your disks.
Supporting various types of notifying the user or the system administrator
The program supports pop-up messages, e-mail and network messages to report any problems with the disks.
Quick scan of the disk state
A quick S.M.A.R.T. scan mode allows evaluating the disk state at one glance.
Previewing the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes
This feature allows obtaining useful information, such as how many hours has the disk been working or the number of read/write errors etc.
The built-in messaging features allow the system administrators to get notified on an impending hard disk failure on any machine in the network, while the local alerting can be configured to notify the users separately
Moreover, Active SMART includes an internal mail (SMTP) client for sending out email alerts, even if there is no email software installed in the system. It contains flexible logging features, supports system Event log and many other useful capabilities.

Active SMART supports specific notification settings for every SMART attribute or common settings for all attributes
If your system contains several hard drives you can flexible set up different notification settings for every drive.
Active SMART supports specific notification settings for every SMART attribute or common settings for all attributes
You can trace only specific drive parameters (attributes), for example disk Temperature and Write Error Count. The program supports unique notification settings for every S.M.A.R.T. attribute.
Active SMART SCSI version supports both ATA (IDE) and SCSI hard drives (Website)
Previewing more then 25 of the manufacturer parameters of the disk
Creating detailed reports about the disks state
User-friendly interface allows the users to operate Active SMART without any special technical knowledge
Enjoy its simple and convenient interface, which also supports the Windows XP themes.
Active SMART is an industry leading S.M.A.R.T. monitoring software.

Active SMART created in a such a manner to combine powerful drive monitoring software with an easy to use interface. Using of Active SMART is easy and it doesn't require any extra knowledge. This documentation contains all the information to understand principles of Active SMART using and some information about S.M.A.R.T.

To start using Active SMART just run ActiveSMART.exe. It will start minimized. When Active SMART is running you can always find its icon near the clock in the system tray (right lower corner of the desktop). That's it - from now Active SMART works for you. If Active SMART detect any S.M.A.R.T. event it will notify you. After start Active SMART detects all your drives and monitors their S.M.A.R.T. status and temperatures.



On the top of the Active SMART window you can find a list of drives installed in your system. Active SMART supports both IDE (ATA) drives and SCSI drives. You can select the drive from this list to view it's parameters of change it's settings. All drive information listed in the tabs below the drives list.

The list of drive contains of drive model name, it's location in the system (Primary/Secondary/Master/Slave drive), it's capacity, drive temperature (if the drive support this feature) and overall drive status as OK or BAD word.
OK means that all drive's S.M.A.R.T. attributes are normal, drive temperature is normal and no T.E.C. detected (i.e. SMART didn't report any warnings about drive's health).

BAD word means that T.E.C. detected for the current drive (i.e. drive's SMART sensors reported an error condition of some of drive parts). In this case you should immediately backup information on this drive.


Drive information presented in 5 tabs (please click on the tab name to get more information):

Disk Info tab - general information about the disk.
SMART Status tab - information about disk SMART status, detailed information about SMART parameters and custom SMART settings.
Preferences tab - program settings and common settings for all drives.
Log tab - text information about SMART events.
About tab - information about program version, authors and copyright.

The SMART Raw data view window contains the raw values of the S.M.A.R.T. attributes. Usually this values show exact amount of time, attempts or errors. For example: the raw value of attribute Temperature is a drive temperature in Celsius degrees, the raw value of Power on hours count attribute is an amount of hours when drive was in power-on state. The meaning of the raw values is vendor specific, and may be different for hard drives from different manufacturers.

Not all S.M.A.R.T. attributes have raw data, the list of S.M.A.R.T. attributes on this screen contains only attributes that have this data.


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