SmartReporter does the job for free - fhirsch

You are wrong. Disk Utility, Smart Reporter and similar others are evidently using what Apple's functions tell them. And it's not enough, as I have seen time and again. I continually see drives which Disk Utility says are OK and they are not. If you are a plain user you can just download Smart Utility and use it every now and then free. If you are in the support business it's well worth it's price

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Tuesday, January 22 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

SmartReporter does the job for free - cavenewt

As a professional Mac consultant, I swear by SmartUtility. It has forewarned me of drive failures (which had not failed the standard SMART yet) so I could take preventive action before disaster struck. In the instances where I put the drives back into service, even after a Write All Zeroes reformat, they still failed, and frequently enough so that I now trust SmartUtility when it says a drive is Failing.

SmartReporter is useful for everyday users, but for support people or just anybody who can't afford to lose data or time, SmartUtility is well worth the modest license fee.

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Thursday, October 09 2008 @ 10:36 AM PDT